Delain Law Office, PLLC Protects the Creative Product of Your Mind.™
Working with small- to mid-sized businesses, we help you acquire, protect, enforce and commercialize intellectual property — patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, trade secrets. Through our Intellectual Property Auditing process, we advise and counsel you to ensure your valuable intellectual capital is fully protected.
In business, we are your legal consultants, providing counsel and advice on matters ranging from start-up concerns through board of directors concerns through contract negotiation, drafting and enforcement through exit strategizing through business closing and wind-up concerns.
We educate and guide our clients regarding their legal matters. Because we can work on a flat-fee retainer basis if you so choose, where you pay a set amount each month for the duration of our representation of you, when you have a question about any of the legal matters we partner on, you call to ask without having to worry about hourly billings.
For all aspects of your business, we Protect the Creative Product of Your Mind.™
We also offer services to individuals, including representation before the US Bankruptcy Court and representation in matters relating to whistle-blowing on the job.
We provide legal services to small and mid-sized businesses and to individuals on a fee-for-service basis.
"Hottest" Selling Service
Intellectual property work: patents, copyrights
Business law work: Formation, advice & counsel, contracts.
Specializes In
Intellectual Property: patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition, licensing, franchising
Business Law: start-up, formation, advice and counsel, contract negotiation and drafting, Board of Directors advisement, close down and wind-up
How I Got Started
I came later in life to the law. Before law school, I was for many years a technical writer and editor. During that career, I had the pleasure of working with a publishing house as their acquisitions editor for computer science. This was in the days when floppy disks were indeed ''floppy,'' and they were very, very easy to copy. When the publisher wanted to put out a book with a disk inserted, it became my task to work with the copyright attorney to come up with a statement that protected the materials on the disk from being copied and distributed. I had FUN doing that. That was my first inkling that being an intellectual property attorney would be my calling. Then life happened, and I ended up attending one of the top five law schools for intellectual property in the nation (Franklin Pierce Law Center, now the Univ. of New Hampshire School of Law). After law school, I hung out my shingle and have loved every minute of my practice (well, almost).
Favorite Part Of The Business
I love the challenge of working with the entrepreneur to help him or her recognize what s/he does not yet know, and to help him or her gain that knowledge.
Education
1978: Smith College, Northampton, MA; A.B., Biological Sciences
1981: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; M.S., Technical Writing
1999-2001: New England School of Law, Boston, MA; transferred to Franklin Pierce
2003: Franklin Pierce Law Center (now known as University of New Hampshire School of Law), Concord, NH: J.D.
Licenses
Admitted to practice law in New York
Admitted to practice before the US District Court for the Northern District of New York
Admitted to practice before the US Courts of Appeals for the Second and Federal Circuits
Admitted to practice before the US Patent & Trademark Office
Member Of
New York State Bar Association
Southern Saratoga Chamber of Commerce
Eastern NY Intellectual Property Law Association
