Al leads the technology and patent search group at Founders Legal.

As a researcher, engineer, scientist, strategist, academic, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur, Al’s career has been spent working within the fuzzy front-end of innovation to bring ideas from the mind to the market.

Al Founded Atlanta Patent Services (APS) to provide local, expert research to lawyers, companies, and entrepreneurs in the Southeast and beyond. In 2020 Founder’s Legal and APS partnered to tightly integrate search and legal, to optimize the critical initial stages of patent prosecution and lay the groundwork for successful execution.

Yuri heads the Intellectual Property practice group at Founders Legal in Atlanta, Georgia.  A practice he co-founded at the Atlanta Tech Village – the nation’s fourth largest incubator.  He specializes in preparing, developing, and executing strategies for securing patents nationally and internationally. He focuses his work on developing IP portfolio of high value, and helps clients to licensing and acquisition deals to monetize on their IP rights.  He has secured patents, negotiated and executed domestic and international IP deals in the Software, Internet/Telecom, Computer, Electrical, and Medical Device fields. His team also prosecutes patents in the Mechanical, Aerospace, Biotech, and Pharmaceutical industries.

Ed is a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice group and a registered patent attorney. His practice involves all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent procurement, trademark prosecution, copyright and trade secret. Ed’s intellectual property experience encompasses patent prosecution, patent and IP strategy formulation, licensing, due diligence, patent opinions, and post-grant proceedings. Ed has served a variety of clients, including multinational corporations and start-up companies, in a variety of technological fields, including chemical, pharmaceutical, polymers, textiles, biotechnology, medical technology, energy, consumer products, mechanical devices, computers, software, electronics, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

Rob is a patent, trademark, and technology associate at Founders Legal. Rob performs patent prosecution, trademarks, and outside general counsel assistance.

Prior to law school, Rob conducted high energy nuclear physics research for Georgia State University and created, coded, and appropriated specialized software for local political campaigns. While in law school, Rob participated in patent prosecution, corporate governance, and trademark law clerking at Founders Legal.