Alan Heimlich is President of Heimlich Law, PC. Mr. Heimlich brings over 20 years of engineering experience to the practice of intellectual property law. Prior to forming Heimlich Law, he was an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman (BSTZ) in Silicon Valley, where Mr. Heimlich currently resides. While at Blakely Sokoloff Taylor and Zafman, he worked on intellectual property matters for companies such as Applied Materials, Inc., Cypress Semiconductor, Inc., Intel Inc., Read-Rite, Inc., Sonics, Inc., Sony, Inc., etc.
Prior to his law career, Mr. Heimlich worked for a variety of companies, including Intel, Fujitsu, Integrated Device Technologies (IDT), and Sun (now Oracle). He has designed hardware (discrete analog, digital ICs, DSPs, etc.), boards, systems, and written firmware, device drivers, software, compilers, and applications.
He also started four businesses and so understands the challenges facing start-ups and has an intimate appreciation of how to protect intellectual property. Mr. Heimlich has also handled business planning and strategic development (both domestically and internationally) involving negotiation, licensing, alliances, joint ventures, etc. As an attorney, Mr. Heimlich has worked on intellectual property matters involving circuitry, hardware, microprocessors, firmware, software, systems, networking, communications, optics, and business technologies, etc. Mr. Heimlich has handled as lead counsel litigation in state courts, and as lead counsel has handled patent litigation cases in Federal court, and trademark cases.
Mr. Heimlich holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Santa Clara University, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Purdue (Eta Kappa Nu), and is a Registered Professional Engineer both in California and nationally.
Mr. Heimlich’s Fields of Technical Expertise Include:
Patents I Have Worked On
We are technically very knowledgeable and work with our clients to achieve their business objectives whether it be procuring IP such as patents or pursuing court action to protect or defend their rights.
This is a sampling of companies and individuals that we have secured patents for.
We are a boutique law firm specializing in intellectual property with an emphasis on patents.