About
Law Office of Lance C. Venable, PLLC is an intellectual property law firm based in Chandler, Arizona, founded in 2014. The firm serves individual inventors, startups, and established companies in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, and computer and internet law. Services include patentability evaluations; preparation, filing, and prosecution of patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; federal trademark registration; copyright protection; trade secret counseling; and drafting and negotiating technology and IP licenses. The firm also represents clients in IP disputes in federal and state courts throughout the United States, with a significant portion of the practice devoted to litigation.
The practice is led by Lance C. Venable, a registered patent attorney with an electrical engineering background who has prosecuted hundreds of matters before the USPTO and litigated more than a hundred intellectual property cases in U.S. district and appellate courts. Notable work includes serving as lead counsel in MDY Industries LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, where the Ninth Circuit issued a significant decision involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Clients span a range of industries, including software, consumer products, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing.