Bruce has over 40 years of experience as a full spectrum intellectual property law attorney, equally divided as 20 years a corporate intellectual property attorney moving from patent trainee to senior counsel. For a dozen years he was the Chief IP counsel for Winchester, managing in excess of 50 international litigations simultaneously while establishing a multi-million dollar trademark licensing program and negotiating several major weapons contract with the US Government. In private practice Bruce has used his corporate experience and government experience to turn the tables in favor or startups and individual inventors by concentrating on representing small inventors against big companies and the Government. He is one of a handful of attorneys actively litigating patent claims against the US Government at the US Court of Federal Claims.Bruce is the leading contributor both in terms of quantity and quality on the major online legal answer site www.avvo.com where he has answered over 7000 legal questions covering all areas of intellectual properties. He is thus a national expert in patent, copyright, trademark and all other areas of IP practice and is uniquely current on the practical aspects of IP law and currently hot topics. He runs a popular intellectual property law portal www.burdlaw.com and a popular blog America Invents IP Blog commenting on current patent reform. Intellectual Property Attorney, Mediator & Arbitrator. Litigation, Licensing, Applications, Consultation. 40 Years of experience as Corporate and Law Firm attorney. Founder and Principal of The BURDICK Law Firm. In short, although approaching retirement, Bruce is still on top of his game as one of the top IP attorneys in the country.Specialties: Representing Individual Inventors and Start Up Businesses.