Coleman Sudol Sapone, P.C. is an intellectual property firm with offices in New York and Connecticut, USA, which, since 1987, has emphasized its work in the creation and valuation of intellectual property assets. The firm takes pride in working primarily with start-up companies and firms which have sales revenues below $100 million US. The firm’s members take a hands-on business approach to the creation and valuation of intellectual property assets. Although the firm’s members are attorneys, their combined experience in law, technology and business development enables them to provide a potent business perspective when counseling clients. The firm is cost-conscious, efficient and provides exceptional service to its clients at favorable rates.

             In the intellectual property community, the firm’s members are extremely rare in the sense that each has extensive experience handling matters related to the actual creation of intellectual property assets as well as the valuation and licensing/acquisition/sale of such assets. In addition, the firm handles litigation matters and has experience in these legal areas as well. Consequently, a client to the firm will find that obtaining access to information and/or answers to legal questions occur in a manner which greatly facilitates business decision-making.

OF COUNSEL:

              Kevin J. McGough has over 20 years of legal experience relating to the prosecution, litigation, and licensing of chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology patents.  He practices in the New York City metropolitan area and his clients include some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as leading start-up corporations.   Kevin received undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical engineering from Manhattan College (B.Ch.E. 1980, M.Ch.E. 1981) and law degrees from St. John’s University School of Law (J.D. 1985) and New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1991).  He was an associate attorney with Kenyon & Kenyon (1985-87) and Morgan & Finnegan (1987-88) and was employed as corporate patent counsel with Merck & Co., Inc. (1988-2001).  Prior to law school, he worked as a process engineer for M. W. Kellogg Corporation and the Mobil Oil Corporation. 

             Mr. McGough has published extensively on chemical and biotech patent law, served as a contributing editor for Bio/Technology magazine, and lectured on patent law before the American Bar Association and other organizations.  He is a member of the New York State Bar (1986), New Jersey State Bar (1988), United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Bar (1988), United States Patent and Trademark Office Bar (1986), and is admitted to practice before the federal district courts of New York and New Jersey.