About
Recent Accolades:
Featured inside the Los Angeles Business Journal, Most Influential Lawyers of 2014.
Named as one of the 2015 Trusted Advisors for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.
Awarded as 2016 Top Lawyers of Southern California by using Los Angeles Magazine.
Awarded 2016 Global Law Experts Award for Business Start-Up IP Law Office in California.
Named 2016 Intellectual Property Practitioner of the Year by means of Acquisition International.
Named 2017 America’s Most Honored Professional via The American Registry.
Awarded a couple of years of Super Lawyer recognition.
Named 2019 Best Law Offices via Best Lawyers of U.S. News and World Report.
Named 2019 Business Start-Up IP Law Office of the Year in California through Corporate International Magazine Global Award.
Associations: Santa Monica Bar Association Board of Trustees and Past President; Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Bar Association Board of Directors; Los Angeles Copyright Society; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; American Bar Association; Malibu La Costa Board of Directors; President of Malibu Winding Way Homeowners Association Board of Directors; Malibu MPC Nursery School Board of Directors; Younglife of Malibu Board of Directors; Malibu Presbyterian Elder; Phi Kappa Psi UCLA Chapter Advisor; ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative 2014-2015; Central District Court of California Lawyer Representative 2014; President of SecureCase Co.; has club of the Lawyer Representatives’ Mediation Panel Selection Committee.
Areas of Practice: Specializing in patent, copyright, trademark clearance, submitting, licensing and litigation matters for a huge sort of complicated technology. Expertise in startup ventures requiring patent, copyright, trademark, change secret, unfair competition clearance, protection, enforcement, and licensing. Extensive experience in the excessive-tech, direct advertising, infomercial and multilevel marketing industries.
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Legal Issues
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
- Trademarks
- Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
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Experience
- Managing Partner
Cislo & Thomas LLP
1987
Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggemann & Clark of Los Angeles
1986
Educations

Graduation year: 1986

Graduation year: 1981