Taylor Norton | Metairie Intellectual Property Lawyer

Taylor Norton is a registered patent attorney and an engineer. He may be contacted at (504) 858-0198 for a consultation.  He has extensive experience covering all forms of intellectual property and performing transactional work covering a wide range of contracts and business transactions, including domestic and international. His practice is focused on serving the needs of clients with patents, trademarks, copyrights, LLC formation, contracting, branding, and product development.

His comprehensive IP practice covers patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He has extensive knowledge and experience in corporate and commercial transactions, including technology licensing, contracts, IP assignments, manufacturing agreements, operating agreements, and product development agreements.

His patent drafting, prosecution, and technology licensing experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, including computer science, electrical, and electro-mechanical engineering, power generation, oil and gas, civil construction methods, life sciences, chemical compositions, peptides and amino acid sequencing, paint compositions, medical devices and bypass procedures, and mobile applications.

He advises clients on domestic and international trademark protection, including the registration, licensing and enforcement of trademark rights. His comprehensive trademark practice helps clients to build, protect and monetize their corporate images, names, brands, products, and business lines. He represents clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Taylor provides strategic counsel to clients on corporate structuring and the formation of business entities, including limited liability companies and special-purpose-entities, meeting the needs of his clients.

Taylor is the Author of the legal and business guidebook Louisiana Limited Liability Company: Forms and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing Company.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Taylor M. Norton Intellectual Property Attorney & Registered Patent Attorney	New Orleans, LA	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law	J.D.	Law School	2007
Loyola University New Orleans School of Law	Juris Doctor	Law	2007
North Carolina State University	Master of Science	Civil Engineering; Specialty: Structures and Mechanics	2004
Virginia Tech	National Science Foundation Research Fellow	Macromolecular Science and Engineering	2003
Louisiana State University	Bachelors	Pure Mathematics	2002

State / Court	Date
United States Patent and Trademark Office	2009
Louisiana	2007

• Member | Louisiana State Bar Association

• Selected to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023
  Published by Law Business Research Ltd., a prestigious distinction where only those individuals identified by market sources for their exceptional skill sets and profound insights into patent matters feature in the IAM Strategy 300. It records those who innovatively create and action strategies which realize and amplify the worth of IP portfolios.
  
  Selected to the 2023 Louisiana Super Lawyers listSelected to the 2023 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
  Issued by Thomson Reuters, as a prestigious distinction that only 5% of attorneys in Louisiana receive, as an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice.
  
  Selected to New Orleans Magazine’s 2022 Top Lawyers list for Intellectual Property Law
  Issued by New Orleans Magazine · Jan 2022
  
  Selected to the 2022 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
  Issued by Thomson Reuters, as a prestigious distinction that only 5% of attorneys in Louisiana receive, as an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice.
  
  Selected to New Orleans Magazine’s 2021 Top Lawyers list for Intellectual Property Law
  Issued by New Orleans Magazine · Jan 2021
  
  Selected to the 2021 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
  Issued by Thomson Reuters, as a prestigious distinction that only 5% of attorneys in Louisiana receive, as an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice.
  
  Selected to New Orleans Magazine’s 2020 Top Lawyers list for Intellectual Property Law
  Issued by New Orleans Magazine · Jan 2020
  
  Selected to the 2019 Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Stars list
  Issued by Thomson Reuters · Aug 2018.  Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement
  
  Featured Speaker: "Trademarks, Patents and Websites: Protecting the Brand"
  Issued by Louisiana State Bar Association's 11th Annual Solo, Small Firm & TECH Conference · Jan 2018
  
  Selected to the 2018 Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Stars list
  Issued by Thomson Reuters · Aug 2017
  
  Selected to New Orleans Magazine's 2017 Top Lawyers List for Biotechnology Law
  Issued by New Orleans Magazine · Nov 2017
  
  Selected to New Orleans Magazine's 2017 Top Lawyers List for Intellectual Property Law
  Issued by New Orleans Magazine · Nov 2017
  
  Featured Speaker: “What’s in a Name? Choosing, Branding and Protecting Your Venture”
  Issued by New Orleans Entrepreneur Week · Jan 2016
  
  Featured by New Orleans CityBusiness as "Ones to Watch in Law"
  Issued by New Orleans CityBusiness · Dec 2015

• Louisiana Limited Liability Company: Forms and Practice Manual
  Data Trace Publishing Company · Jan 1, 2016 - present
  
  Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Government Contracts
  Federal Lawyer, Vol. 57, 2010 · Jan 1, 2010
  
  Behavior of 3-D Woven Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Bridge Deck Slabs
  International Conference: Future Vision and Challenges for Urban Development · Dec 1, 2004

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