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. The
Martindale AV+ Rating
reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of
professional excellence.
(http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/About_Us/Ratings/ratings_categories.xml.)
Examples of the 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)
Examples
of trademarks 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)
- CASTAŅER
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)
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 a spacious office suite 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, the District
of Columbia and the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. He is a Certified Toastmaster member and
former president of the Generally Speaking Toastmasterīs
Club in Crystal City, Virginia. He is also a member of
the National Sportsmanīs Association, the NRA, the
Chesapeake Bay Pearson Owner's Association, the
Virginia State Bar and the American Intellectual
Property Law Association.
Mr.
Pravel has many personal accomplishments including
earning a black belt in Tae Kwon Do in 1994 and a PADI Dive Master rating in 1991. He is an active
Sailor on the Chesapeake Bay and also enjoys hunting
in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley
in Virginia. |
