Richard E. Kurtz II is a registered patent attorney with wide-ranging experience in the areas of computer hardware and software, energy delivery and management, electronics, telecommunications, semiconductor design and fabrication, physics, imaging systems, medical devices, and optics.

Rick is experienced developing and executing patent foreign filing strategies; handling patent clearance searches and opinions to steer clients' product development prior to market entry; performing intellectual property due diligence investigations in connection with technology transfers, including infringement and patentability studies; giving talks before clients' engineering, marketing, and management groups to educate on intellectual property; advising clients on copyright, trademark, trade secret, and Internet domain name issues; and handling contract and trade secret litigation.

Rick was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office before entering private practice in 1992. He formerly chaired the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Virginia State Bar, which has more than 1,000 member attorneys.