We are IP operators on our clients’ frontlines using lean principles to provide elite and efficient IP services, teaching how to navigate IP, and communicating every step of the way.
Here are the design principles and ethos of our firm.
We prioritize communication. To put our money where our mouth is, we do not charge for most phone calls or email responses.
We aim for elite. Work originating from Mertzlufft Law will be prepared as if it were for ourselves. We design processes to build quality into our products and services.
We teach. We abhor the opaqueness commonly associated with the legal system. We answer our client's questions completely and concisely, and we avoid legalese everywhere we can. We further share our knowledge and expertise the community needing access to the law we practice.
We practice lean efficiency. We don't waste our client's time or capital, and we don't waste our time or capital. We believe no process is etched in stone—we will always be open to enhancing and streamlining our processes in a spirit of continuous improvement.
We are a special operations firm. We aren't a general practice, nor do we try to be. We are focused on the niche of intellectual property, providing cunning legal services to our clients in that field.
We are on our client's front line. We recognize that IP is both an offensive and defensive tool. In that way, we will bring the full power of our processes and expertise to bear in furtherance of our clients' goals.
We protect inventions using patents to obtain nationwide rights to prevent others from making, using, or selling a claimed invention.
We protect brands using trademarks to identify the source of goods or products.
We establish and manage intellectual property portfolios, as well as facilitate sales, valuation, and licensing of intellectual property.
We enforce patents against infringers and we defend against allegations of infringement.
Joshua is a patent attorney and counselor. An entrepreneur himself with a background in physics and a love for learning how things work, Joshua helps inventors, entrepreneurs, and creators procure, enforce, and defend patents. He has experience working with startups, small businesses, large companies, independent inventors, and universities on an array of domestic and international intellectual property matters. With his physics background and experience as an engineer, Joshua works with inventors, creators, and businesses in fields including:
Prior to founding Mertzlufft Law, Joshua began work as a patent attorney with Buffalo, NY’s largest law firm. He graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Law with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Privacy Law. While there, he researched legal questions related to blockchain and cryptocurrency, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Buffalo Law Review, was an internationally-ranked oralist in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court, was selected for the Order of the Barristers, and received awards in Intellectual Property and Trial Technique. Before attending law school, he was a mechanical engineer in the energy and heat transfer industry and trained in Lean Six Sigma.
Our mission is to provide elite, effective, and efficient intellectual property services to firms creating the future.
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Mertzlufft Law PLLC is an intellectual property law firm headquartered in New York. Practice is limited to U.S. Federal and New York State Law.
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