Patrick Clunk

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property

• Patent Procurement

• IP Business Strategy & Agreements

• Trademarks

• Patent Litigation

Career

Patrick Clunk provides clients with strategic intellectual property counsel and advice on securing, protecting, clearing, and licensing patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property.

Recognizing that each client, along with each matter, can include varying circumstances requiring specific legal strategies rather than conventional costly, blanket, one-size-fits-all solutions, Patrick works to develop client-specific, cost-effective intellectual property strategies that satisfy the needs of the client for each particular matter.

Patrick assists clients with all aspects of intellectual property, including utility and design patent application preparation and prosecution, trademark preparation and prosecution, and license agreements (negotiating, reviewing, and drafting). He also has extensive experience preparing patent invalidity, patentability, and freedom-to-operate opinions. Having worked closely on intellectual property matters with IP lawyers and other professionals across the United States and in countries all over the world, Patrick provides clients a global outlook for IP matters and directs them to trusted legal counsel outside the United States.

He works with companies in a variety of industries, including consumer products, manufacturing, healthcare, and cosmetics to protect their products and brands. In addition to procuring the necessary IP protection for clients, Patrick polices and defends their IP. This includes quickly stopping infringement, such as on e-commerce websites, and taking the steps needed to ensure that the infringement does not resume.

Professional Memberships

• Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Education