Lloyd & Mousilli PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Intellectual property and technology anchor the firm's work. Lloyd & Mousilli PLLC describes itself as a boutique focused on those two areas, and its services follow from that focus. It handles patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and it adds brand protection and general counsel work on top of that base. As a reviewer, I read that list as a firm organized around how technology companies protect what they make.

The corporate side runs alongside the IP work. The firm handles corporate and contract matters, litigation, and startup counsel that begins at incorporation and continues as a company grows. It also offers subscription plans and ongoing general counsel arrangements for clients who want steady advice rather than one-off filings.

How the team is built

Founders and senior lawyers

Feras Mousilli and Jason Lloyd founded the firm after meeting at the University of Texas School of Law. Mousilli is the Managing Partner. Lloyd is listed as Co-Founder on the team page.

The roster reaches past the two founders. Mac Leckrone and Anthony Choueifati hold Senior Counsel titles. Benjamin Hanrahan is Senior Patent Counsel, and Vicky Smolyar is Senior Trademark Counsel, which lines up with the firm's patent and trademark work.

The Of Counsel group

The Of Counsel bench covers several distinct areas. Chris Reel and Maureen Farrell work on disputes. Rachael Dickson handles trademarks, Harold Laufer covers finance, Terry White covers privacy, and Anand Gandhi covers mergers and acquisitions. In my opinion, that spread of named practice areas tells you more about the firm than any tagline would, because each title points to a type of matter the firm expects to see.

What intellectual property work involves

Patents, trademarks, and copyrights each move on their own track, and the firm names all three. A patent application goes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where an examiner reviews the claims and often sends questions back before a patent issues. The firm's registration before the USPTO matters here, since patent prosecution requires it.

Trademark work runs on a separate timeline. The USPTO examines an application, publishes it for opposition, and registers the mark if no one objects. Brand protection continues after that, through monitoring and enforcement against later marks that overlap. Copyright and trade secret matters cover creative work and confidential business information, which sit outside the trademark register.

Litigation sits behind all of this. When a dispute reaches court, the firm's disputes attorneys handle it, and the firm covers trade secret and infringement claims that grow out of the IP it files. As a reviewer, I find the pairing of prosecution and litigation practical, since the same firm can both register a right and defend it.

Reach across offices and licensing

The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas. It lists offices in Austin, Columbus, Dallas, Damascus, Houston, Istanbul, Kyiv, Medellin, and San Francisco. That footprint crosses several countries, and the firm reports legal work in more than 17.

Licensing follows the same wide pattern. The firm's lawyers are admitted in California, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Washington, and the District of Columbia, along with registration before the USPTO. For a client whose product ships across state lines, that range of admissions carries weight, since IP and corporate questions rarely stay in one jurisdiction.

Who the firm works with

The firm's clients include entrepreneurs, early startups, and Fortune 500 companies. That is a wide band, and it fits a firm that handles both incorporation paperwork and the patent portfolios larger companies carry. The same team can set up a young company and then protect what that company builds.

The firm states it has 15 years of experience in business and technology law, and it says its attorneys previously practiced at large law firms and corporate legal departments. The team page confirms the titles behind that claim. It names counsel across patents, trademarks, disputes, privacy, finance, and mergers and acquisitions. The site does not list a founding year, so the 15-year figure is the firm's own account of its history.

The verifiable details are concrete: two named founders, a dozen listed attorneys with titles, ten defined practice areas, and admissions across seven states, the District of Columbia, and the USPTO. The firm keeps its headquarters in Houston and lists nine offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.