Patent Attorney Mat Grell – Call for a FREE Invention consultation (678) 202-5990, Email

US Patent Attorney
Georgia Attorney
Washington Attorney

I’m a Patent Attorney and Entrepreneur who holds his own portfolio of patents and trademarks. I don’t just practice as a Patent Attorney I am an Inventor and Idea person as well.

Do you have a new invention or idea?
I am a patent attorney, licensed with the State of Georgia (Patent Attorney Atlanta Georgia), Washington and registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Due to the nature of federal patent law, I can serve clients nationwide.

My degree is in electrical and computer engineering with experience in software, controls, mechanical devices, electro-mechanical systems, electric power, electronics, fabrication techniques, MEMS, optics, telecommunications, mechanical, and electro-mechanical products. Also, I grew up on a farm where I developed detailed knowledge of mechanical devices and systems. Like you, I am an inventor and have my own issued patents and trademarks. Listed below are some of my entrepreneurial endeavors.

EDUCATION:
* Juris Doctor, 1995, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan
Course Highlights: Patent Law, Patent Drafting, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, and Business Planning & Transactions.
* B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1988, University of Iowa, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa City, Iowa

ENTREPRENEUR:
* Inventor Start Kit™ It’s where Inventors Start™ The kit includes a digital download with inventor information & instructions, actual samples, and your own ready to use forms for recording your invention, evaluating the protectability and marketability of your invention. In addition, the website offers helpful educational information about inventions.
* BackHand™ Greeting Cards A line of satirical e-greeting cards for those in a challenging relationship, employment, or family situation.
* BeanPool, LLC A local merchant search, rate and review website providing information on Business Recommended by People You Trust®, and publisher of BeanPool’s Top-Rated Local Business Directory a monthly direct mail coupon and local content magazine.
* DripID® An absorbent mat that is placed under your car to catch vehicle fluid drips. The mat is stenciled with areas or zones corresponding to the mechanical systems of your car. For example, radiator, transmission, power steering, and motor systems of your car, which upon dripping on their designated stenciled zone of the mat identify the system leaking. Patent No. 7,017,400 (registered patent and registered trademark).
* Sneaker Doodle™ A youth product line of canvas or white sneakers accompanied by a set of markers, crayons, stencils, stamps, and/or a rivet tool with charms, or Sneaker Doodle™ supplies may be sold separately as a kit. Sneaker Doodle™ is an art kit that allows youth to personalize his/her canvas or white sneakers with color and graphics.
* OfficeWorkout® A pioneering website delivering streaming exercise videos, educational, training, and instruction in fitness, health, nutrition and personal training. Way ahead of the capabilities of the Internet on this one.
* Company Logos™ A website enabling users to design, view and purchase logos based on stock clip art for integration into business cards, letterhead, and envelope all provided as a pdf file.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Balser & Grell IP Law, Since 2009 Founder of the firm and with 15 years of IP experience Mat currently concentrates his practice in patent, trademark, & copyright drafting and prosecution and business contract drafting and negotiation. We are an intellectual property law firm focused on Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Business Contracts, Entity Formation (LLC, S-Corp.), and Internet Law and related Matters. We help inventors and those with an idea, logo or work of art to evaluate the feasibility of their creation.

* Myers & Kaplan, Atlanta GA, 2004-2008. Preparing and prosecuting patents, trademarks, copyrights applications, providing intellectual property advice to clients in a variety of fields, preparing search, infringement, validity, and freedom to operate opinions, and counseling clients in licensing, formation of entity (incorporation, by-laws, shareholder, stock options), strategic business transactions, and IP litigation support. Drafted or prosecuted over 50 US Provisional applications, over 100 US Utility Applications, and over 200 hundred foreign applications since 2004.
* Movaz Networks, Inc. General Counsel, Norcross, GA, 2000-2004.
$150M VC funded telecom hardware/software Company providing next generation all-optical network solutions. Member of the executive team, including detailed experience with formation, raising capital, business contracts, intellectual property, HR/employment, corporate policy, M&A due diligence, dispute resolution, sales and business development support, engineering & product management support, supply management and export compliance. Contract experience – NDA, development, prototyping, contract manufacturing, trials, quality assurance/testing, interoperability, purchase & license, support, maintenance & EFI services, patent & software licensing, reseller/distributor, services, teaming, OEM, software escrow agreements, IT, web development, joint development, supply, promotion, and other legal documents (experience planning, negotiating and executing complex transactions) . Founded & managed an IP disclosure & review committee.
* University of California, Oakland, CA 1996-2000
Sr. Licensing Manager, Office of Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property/Licensing: Negotiated & completed over one-hundred (100) licensing deals involving University inventions, managed technical writers, technology marketers and an intellectual property portfolio of 300+ inventions, negotiated and drafted terms and conditions of research, material transfer and license agreements (software & devices), managed patent interference actions, mediation, arbitration, litigation and outside counsel.
* Union Electric, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988-92
Control Systems Engineer, Department of Power Operations, Hydroelectric Power Plants. I managed 15 electricians & mechanics as the senior project engineer for the automation and remote control of hydroelectric generators using PLCs, rewinding of generators and their conversion to static excitation.
* Grell Farms, Inc., Iowa. Grew up on a family farm (grain & livestock).

MEMBERSHIP: Washington Bar, 1996; Registered U.S. Patent Attorney, 1998; Georgia Bar, 2005.