Adam C. Rehm
Associate
Specialties:
Patent, Trademark, Copyright, IP Litigation
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Adam C. Rehm
Adam is a registered U.S. patent attorney and former U.S. patent examiner. His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property law with an emphasis on patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Adam has significant experience consulting with executives as well as research and development teams regarding patent portfolio management, valuation, and development, including offensive and defensive patenting strategies and implementation of corporate intellectual property standards.
Adam began his career working as a design engineer for a plastics engineering company. After graduation from law school, he worked as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia. At the USPTO, Adam learned practical procedures necessary for successful patent prosecution while examining patent applications directed to mechanical devices having electrical components, such as LEDs, OLEDs, light guides, projectors, and night vision imaging systems.
During Adam’s tenure with the federal government, he was appointed to the Board of the USPTO Federal Credit Union, was a mentor in the Global Intellectual Property Academy to foreign dignitaries, and provided intellectual property special counsel to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in one of the largest trademark counterfeiting cases to date. At the DOJ, Adam assisted U.S. Attorneys in the successful criminal prosecution of a major counterfeiting ring that distributed millions of dollars worth of counterfeit handbags throughout Washington, D.C. and along the East Coast.
Adam’s client base is expansive and diverse. His representation of two of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic components and software has given Adam significant electrical, mechanical, and software experience. Adam has represented a number of renowned U.S. surgeons that are prolific inventors of orthopedic implants, devices, and equipment. Most recently, Adam has developed a growing niche practice with iPhone patent applications from counseling and representing a variety of independent inventors and a startup iPhone application development company.
Presentations and Publications
- Speaker, Former Patent Examiners on the USPTO, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal CLE, September 2009.
- Speaker, Using Intellectual Property To Protect Structural Creations, Black & Veatch CLE, May 2008.
Education
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Patent Academy
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D.
- Pittsburg State University, B.S., Plastics Engineering
Memberships
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Patent & Trademark Office Society
- Patent Lawyers Club of Washington D.C.
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts
- Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City
- Plastics Advisory Council - Pittsburg State University
- Inns of UMKC - Intellectual Property Inn Master
- Sigma Chi
Bar Admissions
- Missouri
- Kansas
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Previous Firms
- Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, 2007-2010