Bernard S. Ben Klosowski

Patent Attorney at Thrive IP

Ben entered the practice of law after serving in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer. During his naval service, Ben was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, his alma mater. Following active duty and prior to becoming an intellectual property attorney, Ben managed an electro-optics engineering center and also worked as a program manager for a computer systems company.

Ben has obtained hundreds of patents for his clients in the United States and around the world, and has also prepared dozens of opinions, including patentability, clearance, infringement/non-infringement, validity/invalidity, due diligence, pre-litigation, and many other types of opinions for his clients.

Ben has litigated intellectual property and related business issues in federal and state courts and at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as well as domain name disputes via the National Arbitration Forum using Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedures (UDRP). He has experience litigating contentious corporate management disputes in close corporations, and leverages that experience to foreclose corporate structures that germinate such disputes.


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