About Rob
As a specialist in intellectual property (IP) and registered U.S. patent attorney in the firm’s Portland and Boise offices, Rob Teel combines his electrical engineering, business, and legal experiences to develop thoughtful IP strategies for technology companies—particularly for those designing sophisticated software, electrical circuitry, and optoelectronics. For example, he will advise you on whether to protect your invention by patent and, when appropriate, he will help you secure commercially meaningful U.S. and foreign patents. And once Rob secures a patent, he will assist in your efforts to monetize, defend, and enforce it. Should you become concerned about patent infringement, then Rob can advise you on that too by creatively exploiting flaws in complex patents that might otherwise frustrate your business objectives. If he finds flaws indicating a patent was improperly granted, then he will provide solutions for invalidating that patent in, e.g., inter partes proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office or litigation before federal courts. He also applies his technical, business, and legal skills to your technology transactions, with an emphasis on software and patent licensing.
More generally, Rob’s legal practice includes U.S. and foreign patent procurement, worldwide patent-portfolio management, patent opinions, product clearance and freedom-to-operate assessments, IP transactions including IP aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, and patent disputes.
In addition to his practice, Rob serves as Treasurer of and pro bono counsel for The Optical Society (OSA), Columbia Section, which he incorporated as an Oregon public benefit corporation.
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