Cooke Law Firm was founded in January 2005 by Claude Cooke. It is located in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas approximately 30 miles north of Houston and 10 miles north of The Woodlands, in an area that is experiencing rapid growth in the number of technology-based companies. John Love joined the firm in 2009 after retiring as a Deputy Commissioner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The firm has a unique combination of decades of experience in every level of the patent prosecution process coupled with decades of experience in industrial research and commercialization of new technology. Expertise in oil industry technologies is particularly broad.
The field of Intellectual Property Law includes patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. (Copyright law is not discussed since the Firm does not practice in the area.). Patent law provides that rights to inventions are granted and maintained for the period of time when the federal government grants a monopoly to the owner of a patent.
Trademarks are granted by the federal government to protect investments in names, symbols or other representations used to identify products and services in the marketplace. Trade secrets are very important to companies making improvements of products or services in their marketplace. Counsel regarding legal requirements to establish and maintain trade secrets is an important service of the Firm.