Strong Foundation Builds over time

Ingenuity

In 1929, just four weeks before the stock market crash, C. Earl Hovey and Roy Hamilton hung a sign on a door in the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Kansas City, Mo., for their new firm specializing in patent, trademark and copyright law. The ingenuity and resolve it took to launch a new business and survive during the Great Depression tempered the firm in the fundamentals of success.

In 1956 Earl’s son, Bob, inspired by his father, joined the firm. Bob continued the firm legacy by honing his expertise in trademark, trade dress and unfair competition law as well as the preparation and prosecution of mechanical patent applications. His 50-year practice has now inspired the firm’s other attorneys to continue to help entrepreneurs and businesses create, advance and commercialize their new products and ideas. Hovey retired in 2006, but the firm continues to carry the Hovey family name along with that of Warren Williams, who joined in 1957 and recently retired in 2007.

Today, the attorneys are driving Hovey Williams forward, aggressively managing the new face of intellectual property law. Their energy, combined with their legacy of values, experience and inspiration, assures each client’s needs are fulfilled.