Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC

Leading Edge Law Group, PLC -Protecting intellectual property Advancing e-commerce

Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC focuses its practice on intellectual property and e-commerce matters. Our practice includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, technology licensing and commercialization (including software), and e-commerce issues (including online contracting and privacy). Please see our practice areas description for more information.

To reduce the possibility of creating conflicts with our corporate clients, for the indefinite future we are not taking on new individual clients, including corporations and LLCs that are one-person operations. We will continue taking on new corporate clients.

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The Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC, is pleased to announce that Lawrence E. Laubscher, Jr., has joined the firm. Larry is a registered patent attorney with over 30 years of intellectual property private practice experience. He spends a large portion of his time preparing and prosecuting patent applications for both U.S. and foreign inventors. In addition, he renders patentability, patent infringement and patent validity opinions, and works in patent licensing. He is a former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar and a former president of the Patent Lawyers Club of Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering), the University of Baltimore (Juris Doctor), and the George Washington University (LLM in Intellectual Property Law). He is admitted to practice in both Virginia and Maryland. In addition to serving clients of LELG, Larry also will continue his separate intellectual property law practice with Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C., in Annapolis, Maryland. Larry will practice with LELG from his Annapolis office while traveling to Virginia to meet with LELG’s clients on a frequent basis. Welcome Larry!

Melanie Holloway has been named a Virginia Rising Star in Intellectual Property Law. The Rising Stars designation is based on peer recognition and professional achievement of lawyers who are age 40 or under or have practiced for ten years or less. Fewer than 2.5 percent of lawyers in Virginia earn this distinction. The Rising Stars and Super Lawyers lists will appear in Virginia Super Lawyers Magazine and in the July 2010 issue of Richmond Magazine. Melanie also received this honor in 2007.

John Farmer also was listed in 2010 Super Lawyers for intellectual property law. He received this honor in 2006-2009 too.

John Farmer has been listed in the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the field of intellectual property law. This ranking is based upon a confidential peer-review survey of other intellectual property lawyers. Best Lawyers in America also listed John in intellectual property law in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Chambers USA recently released updated rankings for its 2010 Client's Guide. Chambers USA bases its evaluations on interviews of other lawyers and of clients. It tabbed the Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC, as a recommended intellectual property law firm in Virginia, and tabbed John Farmer as being in the top rank of recommended IP lawyers in Virginia. Chambers also recommended this firm and John Farmer in 2005 through 2009. Click on the Chambers icon below to view these rankings.

John's latest column, dated July 26, 2010, is entitled "Watch Out for Famous Trademarks - Big Companies Are Bringing and Winning More Trademark Column Cases." Click here to view this column.

LELG’s offices are in Richmond, Virginia. For more information about LELG or the content of this Web site, please contact John B. Farmer.