For Startup & Early-Stage Businesses and Inventors
We Turn Your Ideas and Knowledge Into Assets
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights
Operate
Can you sell your creations without being sued?
Patent and Trademark Searches Show the Way
Monopoly Profits
Can You Own
Your Best Ideas?
Registered Intellectual Property Assets Support Revenue
Fast
Do You Want to Save Months Mistakes of Trying to Do It Yourself?
Protect Your Ideas, Brands & Trade Secrets Professionally
How to Select and Hire a Patent
Trademark Copyright Attorney
3 Steps to Start with Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights:
STEP 2
Strategize
Let’s develop a plan
On a detailed followup call or video conference, you’ll share your business and invention goals. You’ll leave with clarity and a plan for protecting your ideas and turning them into assets.
STEP 1
Strategize
Let’s develop a plan
On a detailed followup call or video conference, you’ll share your business and invention goals. You’ll leave with clarity and a plan for protecting your ideas and turning them into assets.
STEP 3
Activate
Your plan goes into action
After our followup meeting, you’ll receive a detailed plan. You’ll know what to do, how long it will take, and how much it will cost so you can move forward with confidence.
What We Do
TESTIMONIAL
Funded Startup, Acquired by Fortune 500
Steve has impeccable skills, and a love of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Funded on Shark Tank
Really, really good at patents! Beyond patents, Steve understands the business world.
Took Business Public (NASDQ)
Steven has consistently produced tremendous ideas and results.You will never find better.
How can I help you?
Whether you haven’t started out yet, or even if you’ve been in business for over a decade, we can help. Did you know that according to the US Departmetnt of Labor, 85% of businesses will fail within two years of starting up? That’s millions of shattered dreams, emptied savings accounds, broken homes, and yes, bankruptcies filed. That sad story must end! It doesn’t have to be this way! We can help you avoid many of the most common business errors — often fatal errors.
Accordingly, my goal is to help 1000 inventors, business owners, and innovators successfully complete their first two years in business. Here’s how I can help:
Business, Product and Process Evaluation
Product or Process Invention Evaluation
- To protect your ideas
- To avoid costly lawsuits
Brand Evaluation
- To protect and grow your brand
- To avoid getting cease and desist letters
The Essential Evaluation for Emerging Businesses
- To identify inventions and brands for protecting
- To identify the best entity for you.
- To uncover hidden dangers.
- To discover new opportunities for revenue and savings.
Representation Evaluation
- To insure your current representation is honest, competent and fair.
Copyrights / Creations
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Licensing
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Incorporating
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Consulting
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Patents / Inventions
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Trademarks / Brands
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Congratulations!
There’s never been a better time to be an inventor or entrepreneur!
Timing
Today’s inventors and entrepreneurs can do more, faster than ever. Let’s do a quick comparison:
In 2004 a little business called Digg created software that enabled users to like webpages or articles. It took Digg six rounds of funding and $49 Million to create its product and grow. Today, you know them as Facebook’s “like” functions.
Today, Digg’s same functionality (heck, much better functionality) can be created over a long weekend. In fact, most of that time would be devoted to Design. If you have any doubt, just join in on the next Startup Weekend in the area!
Location Advantages: Economic Growth
Dallas, Texas’ “bedroom communities” at one time truly were . . . however that may have been the case decades ago, today the entire DFW Metroplex is where the USA goes to do business: from the “5 Billion Dollar Mile” (now, actually having $10 Billion under Development) in Frisco that include the new Dallas Cowboys headquarters, to T-Mobile, Oracle, Conifer Health, Code Authority, Gearbox, Randstad Technologies, Kenexa, Fiserv, to HCL Communications and Level 3 Technologies (to name a few), to Irving’s famous names such as Exxon-Mobile, Lockheed, AT&T, and Flour, to Richardson’s Texas Instruments, and Fossil, to Plano’s JC Penny, Dr Pepper – Schweppes, and a host of other household names, today Dallas – Fort Worth and its notable suburbs are all business destinations (that are also a great places to raise a family).
Speaking of DFW . . . unless you’ve been stranded on a remote island, you’ve probably aware that DFW (Dallas Fort-Worth) is one of the fastest growing area of the United States both in terms of population, as well as economically. Indeed, it’s suburbs, including Frisco and McKinney, are consistently ranked in the three fastest-growing cities in the USA, and have been for nearly a decade.
DFW’s University Community
The Southern Methodist University, is anchored in Dallas, and it’s (SMU) Guildhall located in Frisco offers an array of programs for software video game entrepreneurs ranging from weekend classes, to advanced-degreed programs in game design and development. Collin College’s has a Campus in every suburb, and an expansion campus of the University of Dallas (UD). The Guildhall’s annual pitch and presentation event is a must-see! The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), located in Richardson, offers an array of programs for entrepreneurs ranging from weekend classes, to degreed programs in entrepreneurship. UTD is also home to an tech-incubator, and frequently hosts special events for inventors and entrepreneurs, such as Startup Weekend, as well as presentations by Dallas Maverick’s owner and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban.
Area Inventor and Entrepreneur Resources
In and adjacent to Dallas inventors and entrepreneurs find that resources abound. Tech Wildcatters, the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, Genius Den, and DFW Excellerator are popular ‘heart-of-dallas’ startup institutions, while in Frisco The North Texas Enterprise Center has become a regional hub for innovative startups, and at Legacy Park you will find WeWork’s newest facility. Financial resources also abound, such as the North Texas Angel Network. Oh, and check out LaunchDFW.com!
Whether your dream is just beginning, or your growing as fast as your resources will allow, DFW provides access to the funding you need to grow. From angel networks, to growth capital resources, to venture capital and the public markets, Dallas has the financial resources and professional talent to close your deal.
Finding a Patent Lawyer and Trademark Lawyer in Texas
You’re probably here seeking a patent attorney or trademark attorney … well, I’m Steven Thrasher and I’ve been a practicing patent attorney and trademark attorney in DFW since 2002. And, in that time, I’ve helped hundreds of inventors and entrepreneurs (who I call “Game Changers”) transform their ideas into assets that generate startup funding, gain influence and attention, and earn revenue while escaping the competitive pressures of commodity businesses. Some of our clients have been on television shows like Ellen, Steve Harvey, C NN, Fox News, Fox Business, Shark Tank, and dozens of other programs. We would love to add you to our tribe of happy clients.
In additional to patent applications (including provisional patent applications) and trademark applications, I solve problems related to copyrights and copyright law, web-domain registrations, and intellectual property portfolio development. Also, I coach startups about their basic startup needs as well, including incorporations (including LLCs), and where to go to get reputable and reliable website development, design work, branding, copywriting, financing, and insurance.
In service to the community, my firm Thrasher Associates has been active in the North Texas Technology Business Counsel, Tech Wildcatters, and regularly networks with the North Texas Angle Network and Baylor Angel Network (among other angel investor organizations).
I’m honored that you are considering doing business with my practice. Please take advantage of our free resources, and if you have an idea worth protecting, it’s worth your time to pick up the phone can giving me a call.