About
Taylor M. Norton is a registered patent attorney and an engineer with extensive experience covering all forms of intellectual property and performing transactional work covering a wide range of contracts and business transactions, domestic and international. His practice is focused on serving the needs of clients ranging from emerging businesses and individuals to fortune 500 companies. His comprehensive IP practice covers patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and proprietary data. He has extensive knowledge and experience in corporate and commercial transactions, including service agreements, healthcare agreements, construction contracts, government contracts, oil & gas agreements, joint ventures, project development agreements, and technology licensing.
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, bio-filters, antifouling 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 special-purpose-entities, for domestic and international projects and joint ventures.
Taylor is the Author of the legal and business guidebook Louisiana Limited Liability Company: Forms and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing Company.
He is a licensed attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana.
www.NortonIPLaw.com
Work history
Taylor M. Norton Attorney at Law
Intellectual Property Attorney & Registered Patent Attorney
2016 - present
Head of Intellectual Property
Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer LLC
2015 - 2016 Greater New Orleans Area
Chief General Counsel
Waller Marine, Inc.
September 2011 – 2015 Greater New Orleans Area
Associate Attorney, Registered Patent Attorney
LeBlanc Bland, PLLC
2007 – August 2011 (4 years)Greater New Orleans Area
Research Scientist / Structural, Textile and Composites Engineer
3TEX, Inc
May 2003 – August 2004 (1 year 4 months)Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
IGERT Research Fellow
North Carolina State University
August 2002 – August 2004 (2 years 1 month)Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Education and qualifications
Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law
North Carolina State University
Master of Science, Civil Engineering
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Science, Pure Mathematics
Publications
Louisiana Limited Liability Company: Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace Publishing Company, 2010-2016
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Government Contracts, Federal Lawyer, Vol. 57, 2010
