“Patents are the culmination of hard work and human ingenuity. Securing a patent is satisfying with regards to fulfilling a client’s needs as well as contributing to the furthering of global innovation.”
Christopher W. Paulson is a registered patent attorney whose intellectual property law practice encompasses patent preparation and prosecution and IP litigation. He has worked with clients ranging from smaller technology enterprises to large corporations, many in the medical device, chemical, food products, and agricultural industries.
While attending The University of Alabama School of Law, Christopher worked as an intern at the university’s Office for Innovation and Commercialization, where he drafted responses to USPTO Office Actions, performed prior art searches, and met with inventors to understand their inventions. Prior to his legal education, he attended Iowa State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Political Science. His engineering background has proven invaluable in understanding clients’ technical innovations.
- Drafts responses to Office Actions directed to medical devices.
- Drafts responses to Office Actions directed to specialty chemicals.
- Performs legal research to assess the viability of litigation claims.
- Performed infringement analyses for a company’s fleet of technological products.
- Create claim charts for infringement analyses of competing products.
- Draft motions and reply briefs for copyright matters.
- Draft motions and reply briefs for patent litigation matters.