A Texas IP firm · Established 1990
Patent prosecution, trademark, copyright, trade-secret, and intellectual-property litigation. Over 3,700 matters filed before the United States Patent and Trademark Office across three continuous decades of practice.
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Texas offices
USPTO
Registered counsel
The Firm
Eldredge Law Firm has practiced intellectual property law continuously since 1990. From an Arlington principal office and six additional locations across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Houston, the firm serves inventors, founders, and businesses across Texas and the United States. Our partners are USPTO-registered patent attorneys; both have been recognized by Super Lawyers; both have spent careers drafting, prosecuting, and litigating patents and trademarks. We are a two-partner boutique by design. Each matter is handled by the attorney who will see it through.
Since 1990
Practice, uninterrupted
We have spent thirty years drafting claims that hold.
· B. Leavitt & R. Eldredge
Practice Areas
A single file open at the USPTO is rarely a single discipline in isolation. A patent matter often touches trademark, licensing, and trade-secret protection at once. The firm covers each of the six disciplines in depth, by the same two attorneys, in the same building.
The Partners
No associates, no funnel, no handoff. Combined, three decades of continuous practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Partner · USPTO Registered
Every patent claim is a contract between the inventor and the public.
Founding partner. Utility and design patent prosecution, trademark registration and TTAB practice, IP litigation, and IP-related business law. Lead counsel on hundreds of issued United States patents across mechanical, electrical, software, and consumer-product domains.
Partner · USPTO Registered
A trademark is the firm's first instrument of competition.
Founding partner. Complex utility patent prosecution, trade-secret protection programs, copyright registration and enforcement, IP-holding entity structures, and IP litigation strategy and trial work. Three decades of continuous USPTO practice.
Notable Matters
Specific identifiers and clients are withheld for confidentiality. The illustrative examples below describe the type, posture, and outcome of matters representative of recent work.
Utility Patent
Issued · 2024
Drafted, filed, and prosecuted a utility application through allowance for a manufacturing-equipment innovation. One office-action response under § 103. Granted with the originally-drafted independent claim intact.
Trademark
Registered · 2024
Federal trademark registration achieved through office-action response addressing § 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion refusal. Clearance search conducted in advance to identify and design around two prior marks.
Patent Infringement
Favorable Settlement · 2024
Represented defendant in patent-infringement action filed in the Eastern District of Texas. Achieved favorable confidential settlement following Markman hearing.
Trade Secret
Injunctive Relief · 2024
Represented Texas software company in DTSA and Texas UTSA action against former employee. Obtained preliminary injunction and return of disputed code base within 30 days of filing.
Copyright
Registered · 2023
Group registration of a body of literary works for a publishing client, structured to maximize statutory damages eligibility and enable parallel DMCA enforcement.
IP Transactional
Closed · 2024
Texas LLC formation and intercompany license structure for a family-owned manufacturing business, holding the operating-company patent and trademark portfolio in a structure that survives IRS scrutiny.
Texas Offices
The principal office is in Arlington. Additional locations across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the Houston-area Woodlands make the firm convenient to clients in most of the state. All offices route to the same on-call attorney; the work itself is handled from Arlington.
On the Practice
"Every patent claim is a contract between the inventor and the public. The work of the prosecutor is to draft that contract so that what the inventor invented is what the inventor gets to protect."
· Brandon J. Leavitt
First-call questions
If your question is not here, the most reliable way to get it answered is to call the firm during business hours.
A USPTO-registered patent attorney is admitted both to a state bar and to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO registration requires both a law degree and a qualifying technical or scientific degree, followed by passage of the patent bar examination. Only registered patent attorneys may file and prosecute patent applications before the USPTO. Both named partners of this firm are USPTO-registered.
We respond the same business day for inquiries received before 4:00 PM Central Time. Most initial consultations are scheduled within 48 hours of first contact. If your matter is genuinely urgent, the phone number at the top of every page connects directly to a member of the firm during business hours.
Yes. There is no charge and no obligation for the initial consultation. We use the time to understand the matter, evaluate whether the firm is the right fit, and explain the realistic path forward. If we are not the right firm for the matter, we will tell you and, where possible, refer you to counsel who is.
Both. The firm's litigation practice covers patent and trademark infringement, trade-secret misappropriation under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act, licensing disputes, and IP-related contract matters. We appear regularly in the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.
Yes. Patent and trademark practice is by definition federal. Our USPTO and copyright work can be handled for clients anywhere in the United States. IP litigation outside Texas can be handled on a matter-by-matter basis, typically in partnership with local counsel.
