Bryan J. Lempia

Patent Attorney - Partner

direct: 312.854.8360

main: 312.291.0860

fax: 312.291.0864

email: blempia@lsk-iplaw.com

Professional Experience

Bryan Lempia brings a diverse professional background to Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC. He has extensive experience in U.S. and foreign intellectual property matters and has obtained design and utility patent protection for clients involved in a vast array of technologies in various industries. Bryan has written and prosecuted countless U.S. origin design and utility patent applications. He has also handled U.S. filing and prosecution for foreign originated cases from non-U.S. clients and associates.

During his career, Bryan has rendered many legal opinions and counseled clients on a wide variety of products, industrial designs, technologies, and legal issues. He has advised clients in maintaining, building, evaluating, and protecting their IP portfolios. Bryan also has experience in patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation matters and in trademark litigation and opposition proceedings.

Legal Experience

Prior to forming Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC, Bryan was a partner in a large, well respected IP firm in Chicago and brings invaluable experience from firms big and small. He has worked in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Detroit at IP firms as diverse as these metropolitan areas.

Non-Legal Experience

Bryan’s career began as a mechanical engineer with the Chrysler Corporation. As an engineer, he gained business insight and technical experience in product design, testing, development, manufacturing, and quality assurance.

Honors and Distinctions

Associate Editor, Law Review, University of Detroit, 1992-1993

Staff Member, Law Review, University of Detroit, 1991-1992

primary expertise areas

Mechanical

Electromechanical

Industrial Design

Automotive

state bar admissions

Illinois

Michigan

Minnesota

Admissions

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, University of Detroit School of Law, 1993

B.S., Mechanical Engineering,

The Pennsylvania State

University, 1985