Bio

Blake Hurt provides his clients with responsive counsel and value through listening to his clients’ objectives and helping them realize their goals through a strategic approach to overcoming roadblocks and enhancing the client experience. His goal is to incentivize his clients to innovate new products, brands, and businesses by aiding them in securing protection for their innovations and then assisting in the maintenance and enforcement of the resulting assets, ensuring that their great value is fully realized. Blake focuses his practice exclusively on intellectual property, with the most important areas including the preparation and prosecution of patent, copyright, and trademark applications, the maintenance and enforcement of patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and the licensing and transfer of patents, copyrights, and trademarks and related applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and copyrights before the U.S. Copyright Office. Additionally, he advises clients on the merits of seeking international IP protection by filing PCT utility patent applications, Hague System design patent applications, and Madrid Protocol trademark applications. He also provides prior art and patentability searches, authors freedom-to-operate and clearance opinions, and gives opinions as to patent infringement/non-infringement and trademark and service mark registerability and infringement. Blake is also experienced and efficient at enforcing client intellectual property rights against potential infringers, advocating for his clients before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (TTAB) and the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB).