Mersenne Law LLC is a small law office in Portland, Oregon, that was organized in 2009 with the specific goal of serving independent inventors, small companies and early-stage startups whose businesses depend on strong protection for their intellectual property.  Mersenne can provide most of the legal services a technology business might need, but the key service we provide is education: if you understand how the law works and how you can use it to advance your business interests, then you can make better decisions about how to spend your legal budget.  The principal areas of law practiced at Mersenne Law are:

PatentCopyright
  • Drafting
  • Prosecution
  • Infringement Analysis
    Electrical, electronic, computer software, semiconductor and mechanical subjects
TrademarkContract
  • Search
  • Registration
  • Drafting, Review
  • Negotiation
  • Dispute Resolution
Licensing / IP CooperationBusiness Formation
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements
  • IP Licensing
  • Joint Development
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Corporate Charters
  • Conversions, Changes of Control

Mersenne’s main patent attorney, David H. Madden, is an experienced electrical engineer and veteran of Internet and electric-vehicle startups, and he brings engineering sensibility to patent law. With a strong interdisciplinary background and up-to-date domain knowledge, Madden communicates effectively with engineers and inventors to elicit the full scope of their inventions, then describes them accurately and comprehensively to support the broadest reasonable claims. New and experienced inventors alike will be pleased with the clarity of description, and the carefully-drafted claims will shine in licensing or litigation.

For sophisticated consumers of intellectual-property legal services, Mersenne Law can provide unbundled patent work of superior quality, at favorable rates made possible by the firm’s low overhead.

Please contact us today for general information or a quote on a particular project.