Industries

• Manufacturing
  • Consumable Goods

Practices

• Corporate Law
  • Outside General Counsel Services
• Intellectual Property
  • Patent
  • Trademarks
• Private Equity & Venture

Biography

Vance is an intellectual property (IP), patent, trademark, and venture capital attorney. He brings a progressive and creative approach to the development of intellectual property and business strategy for emerging businesses and startup companies. He also helps his clients, including many angel and venture-backed companies, develop comprehensive strategies in a broad range of technologies including software, medical devices, and mechanical and electrical innovations. Vance assists his clients with all aspects of patent drafting and prosecution, trademark registration and clearance, and copyright and trade secret protection. His experience includes providing clients with patentability, validity, and infringement opinions, and serving various intellectual property litigation and regulatory (FDA) needs.

Vance has worked in-house for a Fortune 500 company, has co-founded three startup companies, and is an active angel investor. He is a frequent keynote speaker and mentor for universities, startup accelerators, incubators, and technology groups. He is a past President of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association, was appointed by the Mayor of Cincinnati to the Small Business Advisory Committee and was recognized as one of Cincinnati’s Top 40 under 40.

Alongside his robust practice, Vance is the author of “The Patent Game,” a book written specifically for inventors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders that want to improve their patent knowledge. As Vance refers to it, “IP IQ” can be used to leverage patents as a key driver of business value. He helps readers and clients understand patent application types, tricks and tools, the anatomy of a patent, and other practical information they can apply directly to their business or innovation.