Modern IP Counsel.
Nimble. Precise. Practical.
Talem IP combines technical expertise and practical counsel to protect and strengthen your intellectual property, with advice aligned to your business goals.
IP Counsel That Understands the Technology—
and the Business.
Intellectual property decisions rarely happen in isolation. Talem IP works with in-house legal teams, universities, established technology companies, emerging businesses, and entrepreneurs to make those decisions thoughtfully. Our technical backgrounds allow us to engage directly with engineers, scientists, researchers, and inventors, while our business-focused approach keeps the legal strategy connected to where the organization is trying to go.
Our Practice Areas
Patents & Trademarks
We draft and prosecute patent applications for complex technologies, working closely with inventors and in-house teams to protect what makes their innovations valuable. We also protect the brands behind those innovations through focused trademark strategy and filing.
AI Strategy & Protection
Specialized IP, licensing, and risk strategy for artificial intelligence, data, machine learning, and agentic systems.
IP Strategy Services
Portfolio strategy and ongoing IP counseling aligned with your technology roadmap, commercial priorities, and budget.
Licensing & Transactions
Software, development, data, commercialization, and technology licensing agreements designed to move business relationships forward while protecting what matters.
THE TALEM DIFFERENCE
What It Means
to Work With Talem IP
Nimble Partnership
Priorities change. Technologies evolve. Deals move quickly. We work as an extension of your team and adapt as circumstances change. When something needs to get done, we step in, collaborate, and move it forward—without ego or unnecessary friction.
Technical Precision
Our attorneys and patent professionals bring backgrounds in engineering, science, technology, and business to the work. That technical fluency helps us understand complex innovation, communicate effectively with inventors and R&D teams, and draft with specificity.
Practical Strategy
We connect legal advice to business objectives, budgets, product roadmaps, and commercialization plans. We explain the tradeoffs, give clear recommendations, and focus resources where they can provide the greatest strategic value.
Wendy Zimbone
Managing Partner
Sarah Knight
Partner
Brian Bucheit
Patent Attorney
Trent Merrell
Patent Attorney
Brittany Baker
Patent Attorney
Warren Smith
Patent Agent
Strategic IP Counsel With Predictable Budgeting
For clients who want more than project-by-project legal work, our IP Strategy Packages provide an ongoing connection to the Talem IP team at a predictable monthly cost.
We regularly revisit your portfolio, priorities, and upcoming opportunities so that IP decisions stay connected to the way your business is evolving. The result is a more proactive approach to IP strategy—and fewer surprises when legal needs arise.
New Venture
Build the foundation.
Designed for early-stage companies and entrepreneurs who want to establish sound IP practices, identify important assets, and make informed protection decisions from the beginning.
Accelerate
Keep pace with growth.
For growing companies that need regular portfolio planning, proactive IP guidance, and additional support as technologies, products, teams, and commercial relationships expand.
Empower
Add strategic IP leadership.
Ongoing portfolio management and fractional Chief IP Counsel support for organizations that want experienced IP leadership integrated into their business without adding a full-time internal position.
We also develop customized arrangements for corporations, universities, and in-house legal teams with established IP programs.
Need something different?
Selected
Patent Work
Our team has drafted, prosecuted, and supported patent portfolios across software, electronics, advanced materials, energy, healthcare, communications, and other complex technologies.
Practical Perspectives
for Innovators
Thoughtful guidance on patents, AI, technology transactions, commercialization, and the evolving legal issues affecting innovative organizations.
