Meet the Attorneys

Charles C. Valauskas is legal counsel to domestic and foreign companies, new ventures, and universities and research foundations. Services include identification and forensic analysis of intellectual property, preparing and prosecuting patent applications, trademark registration applications, and copyright registration applications, preparing and negotiating a full range of agreements including licenses, hybrid licenses, employment agreements, work made for hire and assignment agreements, and litigation.

Mr. Valauskas is the Vice President for Industry Relations for the Association of University Technology Managers. He has authored separate chapters for the AUTM Technology Transfer Practice Manual (3rd Edition) on International Copyright Protection and on the Rights of Privacy and Publicity, and has co-authored two AUTM books on copyright protection and digital works in universities — both translated into Japanese.

Mr. Valauskas speaks regularly throughout the world on technological and intellectual property topics and has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the ABA Journal, and Food & Wine. He is a former adjunct law professor for intellectual property matters and has published articles in the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Newsletter.

Allison M. Corder is a registered patent attorney practicing in all areas of intellectual property law. She prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international patents and trademarks, federal copyrights, and performs copyright forensics and initiates takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

She manages domain names through the Trademark Clearinghouse and handles domain name disputes through ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy and Uniform Rapid Suspension proceedings. She manages IP portfolios and performs offensive and defensive analysis on strategic essential and nonessential licensing opportunities.

She participates in all phases of litigation including pre-suit investigation, infringement/validity analysis, preparation of pleadings and discovery, depositions, motions, and Markman hearings. Before entering private practice, she was in-house counsel for a global communication company where she served as Patent Committee Chair, overseeing approximately 1,500 invention submissions per year.