James Pravel has practiced intellectual property law since 1991. He graduated from the California Western School of Law in 1991. During law school, he excelled in moot court competition. He also attended focused courses in intellectual property at the Franklin Pierce Law Center including patent practice, licensing and patent law.

Mr. Pravel has a broad base of experience in intellectual property law including: patent application preparation, patent prosecution, international trademark practice, patent litigation, copyright litigation, trademark litigation, litigation at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board for trademark opposition proceedings and patent searching for high stakes litigation matters.  Mr. Pravel has provided local counsel support for numerous domain name litigation matters, and has experience as lead and has litigation experience before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Mr. Pravel is rated AV+ by Martindale Hubbell.

Examples of the US Patents obtained by Mr. Pravel include:

• Personal Alarm (Des. 356,968)
• Folded Simulated Vehicle Container System (Pat No. 5,310,109)
• Fork Lift Truck (Pat No. 5,480,275)
• Pelvic Pin Guide System for Insertion of Pins into Iliac Bone (Pat No. 5,601,550)
• Double Barrel Spinal Fixation System and Method (Pat No. 5,630,816)
• Expandable Intervertebral Cage and Surgical Method (Pat No. 5,665,122)
• Foot Leverage System and Method (Pat No. 6,349,487)
• Multi-Direction Reclining and Stretching Chair (Pat No. 6,050,642)
• Field or Board Game and Method of Play (Pat No. 5,826,876)
• Foot Leverage System and Method (Pat No. 6,349,487)
• Hair Piece Design (Des. 434,876)
• Composite Tubular Assembly and Method of Forming Same (Pat. No. 6,804,942)
• Method and Device for Obtaining Slices (Patent No. 6,814,994)
• Method of Controlling Vehicle Driving System and Apparatus (Pat. No. 7,294,938)
• Set of Parts for Upper Edge and Channel of Swimming Pools (Pat. No. 7,137,155)
• Swimming Pool and its Building Procedure (Pat. No. 7,302,777)
• Method of Forming a Composite Tubular Assembly (Pat. No. 6,491,779)
• Self-Cleaning Filter Apparatus (Pat. No. 7,192,528)
• Dual Interface IC (Pat. No. 6,881,605)
• Electronic Fuze (Pat. No. 7,213,518)
• Improved Flooring (Pat. No. 6,898,909)
• Mathematical Game (Pat. No. 6,585,585)
• Lightweight Catenary System (Pat. No. 7,073,978)
• Compound of Plasticizers (Pat. No. 7,078,557)
• Anti-Collapse System for Reinforced Tapes and Method (Pat. No. 7,254,933)
• Rasp Blade With Cutting Teeth Laterally Displaced From a Planar Body (Pat. No. 7,341,407)

Examples of the US Trademark Registrations obtained by Mr. Pravel include:

• TCI and Design (Reg. No. 2,863,202)
• TRACOINSA and Design (Reg. No. 2,858,432)
• ALIEN ART CONCEPT and Design (Reg. No. 2,851,529)
• GRES DE BREDA and Design (Reg. No. 2,845,680)
• CASTAÑER and Design (Reg. No. 2,828,277)
• ARLEQUIN and Design (Reg. No. 2,823,859)
• ANTICA and Design (Reg. No. 2,787,285)
• STOREWINDOWS (Reg. No. 2,585,875)
• DIAGNUMB (Reg. No. 2,464,123)
• MASTER PARTING (Reg. No. 2,444,079)
• MASTER HAIR (Reg. No. 2,444,080)
• TONABRICKS (Reg. No. 2,435,404)
• TESSELLA (Reg. No. 2,418,593)
• TRISHA'S (Reg. No. 2,284,318)
• FREECENTER (Reg. No. 2,248,065)
• CYBERTIQUES (Reg. No. 2,238,986)
• ICEBERG and Design (2,199,180)
• ICEBERG SOFTWARE (Reg. No. 2,191,707)
• INTELLIGENT MAILER (Reg. No. 2,146,827)
• DYNAFIRST (Reg. No. 2,102,014)
• BENTON (Reg. No. 2,096,371)
• USA 20/20 and Design (Reg. No. 2,016,662)
• WONDERMUGS (Reg. No. 1,940,814)
• FIRSTPOP (Reg. No. 2,455,356)
• KAISER ENGINEERS (Reg. No. 2,619,365)
• KAISER and Design (Reg. No. 2,619,366)
• SANGAREE and Design (Reg. No. 3,370,068)
• DEEPFLEX and Design (Reg. No. 3,301,396)
• WE TAKE PIPE TO A MUCH DEEPER LEVEL (Reg. No. 3,304,352)
• GUARANÍ (Reg. No. 3,163,179)
• ECOROOM (Reg. No. 3,015,031)
• RESCUE PHONE (Reg. No. 1,898,377)
• LASERITE (Reg. No. 3,351,457)
• COOL ROLLER and Design (Reg. No. To Issue)
• PH and Design (Reg. No. 2,362,852)
• GREEN SUITES (Reg. No. 2,964,970)
• RAWTECH (Reg. No. 2,868,185)
• SMOKING and Design (Reg. No. 2,380,417)
• MANTRA (Reg. No. 2,380,417)
• BUSINESS VENTURE GROUP (Reg. No. 2,990,733)
• TEKNICA and Design (Reg. No. 3,144,526)

Mr. Pravel has experience in a wide range of technical areas and welcomes the opportunity to assist you with similar or related areas.

Mr. Pravel formed his own practice in 1994 with the goal of providing cost effective, aggressive legal services for his firm's clients and to treat each client with dignity and respect.
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His practice is located in spacious office suites in Old Town, Alexandria near the King Street Metro Rail Station. It is located six blocks from the recently relocated US Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Pravel has also worked as a project and design engineer for the FMC Wellhead Equipment Division in Houston. He provided designs for underwater drilling and production equipment while based in the Houston office. He also led a project from design to completion from the FMC manufacturing plant located in Singapore. The southeast asian project required Mr. Pravel to relocate to Singapore to coordinate the manufacture and testing of equipment and then lead the installation of the equipment from a drillship in the waters off of Indonesia.

Mr. Pravel studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas and graduated in 1980. During his undergraduate studies, he excelled in FORTRAN computer programming.  He worked during college as a computer programmer at the Applied Research Laboratory.

Mr. Pravel is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, all courts in Virginia, all courts in Texas, the District of Columbia and is licensed before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a Certified Toastmaster member and former president of the Generally Speaking Toastmaster´s Club in Crystal City, Virginia. He is also a member of the National Sportsman´s Association, the NRA, the Caliber Cruising Club, the Texas State Bar, the Virginia State Bar and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Mr. Pravel has many personal accomplishments including earning a PADI Dive Master rating in 1991and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do in 1994.  He continues to explore scuba diving with underwater cinematography and photography and  is an active Sailor on the Chesapeake Bay.  He also enjoys hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Virginia Shenandoah Valley.