The Law Offices of Konrad Sherinian, LLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm concentrates on intellectual property law. It handles patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and it works on both sides of that field: securing rights and enforcing them. In practice that means filing utility and design patents, registering trademarks, and carrying infringement disputes into court.

Each area runs on its own track. Patents protect inventions and go through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Trademarks protect names and logos and register through the same office. Copyright covers creative and written work, and trade secret law protects information a business keeps private. The firm lists all four, a sign of a firm that stays inside intellectual property.

Filing and enforcement

Utility patents cover how an invention works, while design patents cover how a product looks. The firm files both. Once a right exists, enforcement becomes the next concern, and that is where the litigation side comes in. The firm carries that work through the courts and the patent office.

The client list matches this focus. The firm works with inventors, startups, and established businesses, and it represents online sellers, including Amazon sellers. As a reviewer, I read that range as a firm used to both the filing desk and the courtroom.

How the team is built

The firm names three attorneys on its team page. Konrad Sherinian is the managing partner and a patent litigator. He has an electrical engineering background, and that training matches the technical detail patent cases tend to involve. His work includes matters before the USPTO and Schedule A litigation.

Edward Bi is a partner and a litigation attorney. His work covers design patent matters, asset freezes, and online enforcement. Design patents protect how a product looks, and disputes over them often turn on close visual comparison.

Jeffrey Dixon is an attorney who handles trademark prosecution, with experience in proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Trademark prosecution covers the steps of getting a mark registered and answering the office's objections along the way. In my opinion, the three roles read as a deliberate division of labor.

What the litigation work covers

The firm's disputes reach several forums. It appears before the USPTO, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and federal courts. Its litigation work includes Schedule A cases and copyright litigation.

Patent litigation tends to run long and lean on technical proof. Cases can involve claim construction, where the court decides what a patent's wording means, and technical testimony about how a product works. Konrad Sherinian's engineering background reads as useful for that kind of record.

Schedule A cases

Schedule A cases are a particular kind of federal lawsuit, common in Illinois courts. They bundle many online sellers into one complaint over claimed infringement, and they often open with a request to freeze the sellers' accounts. Edward Bi's asset freeze and online enforcement work belongs to that area.

That context explains why the firm lists Amazon sellers among its clients. These disputes can move fast, and an early account freeze can shape the rest of the case. A seller may need counsel before the other side has fully made its argument.

Copyright and commercial disputes

Copyright litigation turns on whether protected work was copied and who holds the rights to it. The firm handles those cases alongside its patent and trademark work. Its practice list also names commercial litigation, which covers business disputes that reach beyond intellectual property, such as contracts and competition between companies.

The firm's site describes work before federal courts as well as the patent office. Federal court decides damages and injunctions, while the patent office handles registration and validity. Having both on the menu means a client can start a filing and, if a dispute follows, keep the same firm through the fight.

Proceedings before the board

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board hears challenges to patents and appeals from examiners. It runs proceedings such as inter partes review, where a party asks the board to reconsider whether a patent should have issued. Jeffrey Dixon has experience in proceedings there. That work gives the firm a footing in the administrative side of intellectual property, which runs separately from the federal court docket.

Offices and how clients reach the firm

The firm keeps two offices, one in Naperville and one in Chicago. It states that it serves clients both locally and nationwide. Intellectual property work supports that reach, since patent and trademark filings run through federal offices that cover the whole country.

The nationwide claim is easier to credit in intellectual property than in many other fields. Federal filings and federal courts follow the same rules across state lines, so a firm in Illinois can act for a client elsewhere. Naperville lies in the business area west of Chicago, which suits a client base of inventors and companies.

Clients can meet the firm in person, by phone, or by video. As a reviewer, I found the clearest signal in the match between what each attorney does and the practice areas the firm lists. The site says the firm has practiced for over a decade, though it does not name a founding year.