SHOWRUNNER

23 years patent prosecution experience, including as former Examiner, US Patent Office

drafted and filed >450 Utility patent applications, >600 provisional applications, a partial list (below) of Issued Patents is shown here

been involved in the prosecution and management of >2100 Utility patent applications

6 years patent litigation experience

extensive Opinion experience, including both Patentability and Freedom to Operate Opinions

10 years trademark prosecution experience

2 years trademark litigation experience, including settlement negotiations and stand-still agreements before TTAB

Extensive International Patent experience, including PCT filings and Interviews with non-USA patent offices.  Practiced patent law in Tokyo and lived ~20 minutes walk from Japanese Patent Office. Lived in Japan for 2.5 years.  私は日本語を話し、日本に2。5年間住んでいました。

Extensive experience in both patent and trademark docketing. We perform docketing not only for this law firm, but also sub-contract to do some docketing for other law firms.

Patent Law professor and guest lecturer at numerous Universities, including but not limited to Johns Hopkins University, University of South Florida, Murray State University, University of Tampa, and Arizona State University

Been working with startups, small businesses, inventors, and early-stage companies since 1997, provided some sort of counsel or guidance (either legal counsel, or non-legal strategic counsel e.g. product-strategy or funding-strategy) to >140 small businesses

Guest lecturer and presenter on entrepreneurship topics, Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC.com): 2005-present

Fraud prevention. Yes, patents can be used in perpetuating fraud, and good examples are Theranos,  Nikola, and also Enron.  Cryptocurrency is another area where patent documents are used in very questionable contexts, especially around  hyping investments such as ICO's.  

Contributor: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners AFCE.com (not Certified Fraud Examiners, just belong to the group), 

Member, Association of University Technology Managers (autm.net)

Guest lecturer and presenter on entrepreneurship topics, Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC.com): 2005-present

Provide guidance and made presentations to Small Business Development Centers since 2013 americassbdc.org

Provide lots of free and accessible information for DIY inventors, including DIY patents playList, DIY trademarks playList, at YouTube.TannerPatent.com. 

Strong believer in daily exercise.

Strong believer in spending at least part of every day outside:  away from car, away from office, away from home, away from any computer screen (either stationary or mobile). To breathe, re-focus, digest the events of the day, and plan.

Most patent and trademark engagements do not result in directly meeting the client in-person, but when in-person meetings occur, it is preferred that these meetings involve moving around, talking while walking, and being outside. Florida is a beautiful state, has many pleasant walkways.

Strong believer in taking walks and hikes sometimes results in obtaining information from a client that may not otherwise have been discussed, possibly due to higher oxygen to the brain, and/or the stress-reduction commonly associated with walking.

A typical practice is to interview clients about their inventions using a digital recorder, often over the telephone.

This law practice involves a lot of travel. Have taken in-person invention-disclosures in Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, California. 

Have also taken invention disclosures from inventors Okinawa Japan, Jakarata Indonesia, Taipei Taiwan, Shenzhen China, and Bucharest Rumania.

Occasional sufferer of Vertigo (not the movie). Sometimes use this resource for support.