Patricia Werschulz

Ms. Werschulz is an experienced patent and trademark attorney specializing in assistance to small businesses and startups needing help with legal protection for their intellectual property. She has helped clients obtain over 70 patents and 70 trademarks. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Werschulz spent over 30 years as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry before changing careers, including almost 20 years at Bristol-Meyers Squibb Consumer Medicines Division in manufacturing and R & D. She was a Director in Product Development working closely with marketing, manufacturing and logistics to bring new products from concept stage to store shelf.

Pat is an intellectual property lawyer and a registered patent attorney with many years of industrial experience in product development and manufacturing. Prior to entering law practice, Pat was a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry, holding positions from bench chemist to Research Director. While working in consumer products for a Fortune 100 company, she developed a fascination for trademarks, learning the importance of branding. She chose law, specifically intellectual property law, as a second career because of a long-held fascination with patents and trademarks.

After spending decades in the pharmaceutical industry working with patents, either researching for submission in new patent applications or developing a non-infringing alternate to a competitor’s patent, she wanted to help others file their own applications. As the owner of intellectual property law firm, she provides professional and personal service to inventors, business owners and artists. With an excellent track record of preparing patent and trademark applications and shepherding these applications through the US Patent and Trademark Office, she helps clients protect their valuable ideas. She counsel clients on strategies for building valuable portfolios of intellectual properties both in the US and abroad. Pat’s patent practice has not been limited to just life sciences, but also includes a wide range of industrial consumer products. She has helped clients obtain patents in a wide range of art, from clothing to automobile parts, from baby accessories to sporting equipment.

Ms. Werschulz received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Chatham College of Pittsburgh, her M.B.A from Fordham University and her J.D from Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Ms. Werschulz has a history of academic excellence, receiving the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law at Rutgers, the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence at Fordham, graduating with the highest G.P.A. in her class and the American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Chemistry Major as an undergraduate.