Leo V. Gureff
PRINCIPAL
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York State
- The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Education
- Franklin Pierce Law Center ( J.D.)
- Franklin Pierce Law Center ( M.I.P.)
- Southern Connecticut State University (B.S. Biology, Chemistry)
Memberships
An association aimed at improving and promoting intellectual property protection by working to enhance relevant agreements and laws. Its members include IP professionals, academics, and owners of intellectual property.
A U.S. voluntary bar association primarily constituted of lawyers in private and corporate practice, government service, and the academic community. AIPLA represents individuals, companies, and institutions involved in the practice of patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law.
Experience
Mr. Gureff is an intellectual property attorney with experience in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property matters. Mr. Gureff has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting utility and design patent applications on behalf of foreign and domestic clients in the areas of mechanical and biomedical arts, materials science, semiconductor technology, polymer chemistry, and chemical processing and synthesis, as well as, trademark application prosecution and trademark enforcement.
Mr. Gureff also represents technology companies in connection with structuring and negotiating a wide array of complex commercial transactions and agreements, including joint venture agreements, joint research and development agreements, alliance partner agreements, vendor customer agreements, VAR/OEM/distributor agreements, master services agreements, offshore IT and development outsourcing agreements, and data access agreements. He also represents companies in the domain name dispute resolution proceedings (UDRPs) on both complainant and respondent sides.
In addition, Mr. Gureff is an experienced lecturer and presenter on the U.S. patent practice and intellectual property law in foreign jurisdictions. He is fluent in Russian and has extensive and ongoing experience traveling to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to meet with and advise his clients. During these travels, he has given presentations to the Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute, the Ukraine Minister of Justice, and extensively in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Languages
- Russian (native)