At Hollingsworth & Funk, our attorneys have prior experience in engineering research, design, and product development, and academic teaching and research. Because we are engineers and scientists with law degrees, we speak your language and understand your culture. We work hard to develop collaborative relationships with inventors, management, and in-house counsel.

Our firm was established in the summer of 2005, although many of our attorneys practiced law together long before the formation of the firm. Each of our patent practitioners has a degree in electrical, mechanical, biomedical, or chemical engineering; some have master's or Ph.D. degrees in engineering. All of our attorneys have worked as engineers and have years of experience practicing patent law.

We have experience in a broad array of technologies, including electrical, electronics, software, optics, and mechanical sciences.

Within the firm, we work to create and maintain an innovative and interactive working atmosphere. We encourage professional growth and responsibility for all of our attorneys, agents, and staff.

Our Strengths:

• Significant industry experience coupled with a proven track record of high quality legal expertise;
• Better-than-market billing rates for even our most experienced attorneys, allowing our senior partners to actively practice patent law while serving as client managers;
• Proprietary software that provides enhanced IDS management, IP portfolio management, and competitor analyses;
• Extensive foreign IP practice experience;
• Commitment to maintaining low overhead and passing savings on to our clients;
• Thoughtful, creative legal counseling;
• Practice experience in a diverse range of technologies;
• Simplified fixed fee and volume-based billing structures for nearly all US and international application filing and prosecution tasks.