Contributors

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J.D. Houvener

J.D. Houvener is a Registered USPTO Patent Attorney who has a strong interest in helping entrepreneurs and businesses thrive. J.D. leverages his technical background in engineering and experience in the aerospace industry to provide businesses a unique perspective to their patent needs. He works with clients who are serious about investing in their intellectual assets and provides counsel on how to capitalize their patent in the market.

His background in business and experience as an engineer and patent attorney empowers him to clearly communicate to a broad range of clients about their immediate and long-term needs for patenting in order to protect assets, leverage opportunities, and limit liabilities. Some key areas of the patent prosecution practice are: patentability searches, patent applications, office actions, infringement opinions, post-grant actions and consultation on patent strategy and portfolio management.

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Matt Kulseth

Matt focuses his legal practice entirely on trademark law and works with both large and small clients throughout the United States. He has a love for protecting brands but an even larger passion for his entrepreneurial clients. He’s a “people person” attorney. Matt resides in Minneapolis where he was born and raised but has lived on the East Coast, Italy, and South Africa. When Matt isn’t practicing law he spending time at his lake cabin in northern Minnesota with his wife Maggie, daughters Faye and Ruby, and dog Otto.