Bryan E. Meyer

Bryan is a patent and trademark attorney with a broad legal background, including more than 15 years of experience in intellectual property law and litigation and commercial transactions. Bryan helps clients protect their patentable inventions, trademarks, original works, logos, brands and designs. He has worked in both a corporate in-house capacity and in private law firm practice with a wide variety of business organizations and individuals. 

Bryan protects and promotes the intellectual property rights of inventors, entrepreneurs and businesses. He has substantial experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the mechanical arts. Bryan’s practice includes the analysis of patentability, patent infringement, and patent validity, and evaluating licensing and acquisition opportunities. Bryan prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international patent applications, conducts invention disclosure meetings, drafts license agreements, responds to office actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and performs patent infringement and validity analyses as well as patentability studies.

Bryan also prepares and prosecutes trademark applications and counsels clients regarding patent and trademark prosecution strategies and portfolio management.

Before joining Shook, Bryan established a boutique intellectual property law firm where he counseled clients in all aspects of intellectual property law. He acquired significant experience preparing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications; litigating patent, trademark and copyright matters; conducting validity and infringement studies; and drafting licensing agreements. He also served as corporate and securities counsel at a publicly traded company where he gained valuable experience developing working relationships between in-house and outside counsel.

Bryan earned an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and worked in the engineering department of a large water utility company before entering law school. There he provided technical knowledge and project management, wrote and reviewed technical literature, performed engineering studies and inspected hydro-mechanical facilities.