Andrew Metrailer is a seasoned patent attorney and intellectual property (IP) counselor who helps clients secure, protect, and maximize the value of their IP, including patents, design patents, trademarks, trade dress, and copyrights.

Andrew helps clients achieve success by tailoring all aspects of his IP counsel, advice, and representation to each individual client’s objectives after fully understanding their business and goals, and then helps to bring those IP strategies to life.

He has prosecuted hundreds of patents in the United States and foreign jurisdictions for a range of companies and organizations – from startups to colleges to emerging growth companies to Fortune 500 companies.

Andrew prepares and implements comprehensive IP strategies for clients, analyzes and manages IP portfolios, provides opinions, prepares and prosecutes patent applications, conducts due diligence reviews, and draft and negotiates various IP licenses and other commercial agreements that involve IP. Andrew also has extensive experience in design patents, trademarks, and trade dress applications as a way to supplement broader IP protections, including protection in areas such as virtual and on-line marketplaces.

His experience in a range of fields, industries, and technologies includes chemistry, chemical engineering, organic and inorganic chemical processing, mechanical, electromechanical, software, computer components, artificial intelligence, machine learning, all aspects of oil and gas, energy, automotive, batteries, electrochemical cells, clean and green energy, chemical fields, medical devices, and sensors, among others.