About William F. Lang iv
The ideas, innovation, and know-how of a business are often more valuable than its tangible assets. These intellectual assets are critical in setting your products and services apart from those of your competition. Similarly, your name and reputation are often critical elements of your customer’s choice of your products and services over those of your competition. Without proper protection, these important assets can be taken advantage of by competitors who didn’t spend the time, energy, and resources that you spent in developing your innovations.
Since 1998, I have protected the innovations and commercial identities of my clients through patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. After honing my craft at various firms – including one of the largest in the world and one of the oldest in the United States - I came to believe that the best quality advocacy and counseling could be provided to my clients with greater cost effectiveness by a more efficient business model.
My location in Beaver, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, is advantageous for both my practice and my clients. For me, it provides reduced operating costs. For my clients, the low cost of living and doing business in the Pittsburgh area enables me to keep the costs of my services well below the fees charged by other firms providing similar quality. The combination of my experience with my business model allows me to provide the highest level of quality and personalized service, resulting in exceptional value for my clients.
When you engage my services, the protection of your innovations receives my individual attention. Your projects will not be passed off to junior associates or to non-attorney, non-agent “technical advisors.” You will not have to repeatedly pay for another attorney to get up to speed on your project. Regardless of whether you are an individual inventor, a start-up company, a mid-size company, or a multinational corporation, you can be assured that the protection of your ideas receives the highest level of attention to detail.
Your innovations, know-how, and reputation are important to you and your business. I can ensure that your intellectual assets receive the best possible protection.
My Education
- JD, University of Arkansas, 1997
Law Review Member - BS, Industrial Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1992
- BSE, concentration in Electrical Engineering, Geneva College, 2010
My Bar Admissions
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Eastern/Western District of Arkansas
- Pennsylvania
- Arkansas
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
I have also published articles in various professional journals, including the following:
Inequitable Conduct May Apply to Post-Filing Data, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, June 16, 2003, at S3, S6.
Internet Metatags: The Hidden Liability within Hidden Text, SMART BUSINESS PITTSBURGH, June 2003, at 12.
Hidden Liability within Hidden Text: Internet Metatags, LAWYERS JOURNAL, February 21, 2003, at 8.
Washington Redskins Gain Coup Over Service Mark Foes, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A SUPPLEMENT TO THE LEGAL INTELLIGENCER AND PENNSYLVANIA LAW WEEKLY, November 2003, at IP6, IP10.