Ray K. Shahani Attorney at Law                                          

Ray K. Shahani, Attorney At Law

Registered Patent Attorney
Technology and Intellectual Property Matters
Registered Patent Attorney No. 37,554
California State Bar No. 160,814

Our firm has professional experience in industry, academia and the public sector.  The firm's clients range from independent inventors and small businesses to mid-sized, entrepreneurial research and technology concerns both publicly and privately held.  Mr. Shahani is associated with the local intellectual property bar, including colleague patent attorneys and agents in private practice, and he serves as Consulting Attorney in Intellectual Property for the San Mateo County Lawyer Referral Service.

PATENT SERVICES

Our office provides a broad range of patent services involving U.S. and foreign patent application drafting, filing and prosecution. Mr. Shahani has a broad technical background with a specialization in biotechnology and biochemical manufacturing. He has experience with medical devices, chemicals, electronic devices and circuits, computer architecture, software and hardware, mechanical inventions, lighting, physics and optics inventions. To see a list of US patents and trademarks that Mr. Shahani as the attorney on record please click LIST.

We performs patentability and infringement searches and studies, utilizing current CD-ROM and on-line database information. He utilizes the services of other technical and legal professionals, including local graphics experts and foreign filing associates.

INTERNET SERVICES

Our office have represented and advised clients in a broad range of internet-related issues. Clients have included plaintiffs and defendants both in domain name disputes, trademark infringement on the internet matters, web site development and maintenance contracts and related agreements.

GENERAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MATTERS

We provide other specialized legal services, including licensing, small business consulting, contract dispute resolution, insurance claims and various corporate work. He is also engaged in of copyright and trademark matters, including litigation in trade secret and inventor/employee issues, and software development. Approximately one third of Mr. Shahani's practice is devoted to civil litigation.

RAY K. SHAHANI ATTORNEY AT LAW IS A SOLE PRACTITIONER, and is not formally, legally or in any other way associated or in partnership with any other attorney. Attorney's physical offices are shared with other attorneys and they may share legal resources. ATTORNEY IS INDEPENDENT AND NOT IN PARTNERSHIP, PC, LLC, LLP OR OTHER FOR ANY PURPOSES, WITH ANY OTHER ATTORNEY.

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