The Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC® (“CAPPAT®”) has been serving the legal needs of clients in Virginia since 2006. A major reason for our success is our incredible team of lawyers. Learn more about the people behind our firm below.
Since 1970 Mr. Adams has focused his legal practice on obtaining patent, trademark and copyright protection for individuals and companies. Mr. Adams represents multi-national companies before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office and foreign patent offices.
For over 30 years Mr. Curtin has focused his legal practice on the enforcement of patent, copyright and trademark rights in the Federal Courts of the United States and before the International Trade Commission. He has also obtained patent, copyright and trademark protection for individuals and companies before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office and foreign patent offices.
Chris heads up CAPPAT's® valuation services group. Chris works with the members of CAPPAT® to provide insight into valuing technology/patents. Chris also has extensive experience in business consulting, mergers and acquisitions for private industry, the U.S. government, government contractors, technology companies and nuclear energy-related companies.
Wendy Koba has over thirty years of experience as a patent attorney, the last fourteen in private practice. Prior to that Wendy worked as a patent attorney with AT&T Bell Labs for nineteen years. Wendy focuses her practice on the preparation of patent applications, and the development of patent portfolios for a variety of clients, including start-up companies, individuals and corporate clients. Wendy works with Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Center and Keystone Industrial Zone organizations, assisting their various new venture clients in obtaining patent protection.
Martin I. Finston, Ph.D., is a seasoned Bell Labs patent attorney with experience in a broad range of technologies relating to telecommunications and solid-state devices. Dr. Finston spent two decades at AT&T and its successor companies Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent, where he supported semiconductor and wireless R&D activities of those companies in the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. He then moved on to Sandia National Laboratories, where, until joining CAPPAT®, he supported applied research and development activities in microelectronics and imaging technologies