Dean Amburn

Dean has litigated patent, trademark, and trade secret cases in multiple jurisdictions including United States District Courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the U.S. Federal Circuit, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and state courts. He has successfully protected the IP rights of many clients, including clients involved in bet-the-farm type litigation. His legal services cater to domestic and foreign Fortune 500 companies, medium to small businesses, and individuals.

Dean also prepares and prosecutes patent and trademark applications including appeals, reexaminations, inter-party reviews (IPR), cancellations, and opposition proceedings. He helps clients develop the best IP strategies to protect their valuable IP assets by counseling clients on IP-related issues and preparing legal opinions, including freedom to practice and invalidity opinions. 

Dean is a licensed attorney in Delaware, Michigan, and Texas. He is also a licensed patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

In addition to being selected several times as Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America^®, Dean is recognized as a Super Lawyer^® and included in multiple editions of Leading Lawyers at Lawyers.com^®. His law firm has been identified as one of the Best Law Firms by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. He has been labeled by Business Magazine as a Top Lawyer. Other awards include recognition as an IP Star by Managing IP Magazine, as well as recognition by Acquisitions International and America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators. Dean has an AV (Preeminent) rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

Dean’s publication, IP Strategies for Business Managers, provides practical advice for protecting your intellectual property and avoiding infringement. Dean has also contributed to the national publication Inside the Minds: Litigation Strategies for Intellectual Property Cases (2012, Thomson Reuters) on topics including patent eligibility of software and business methods, trade secret case strategies, and discovery of electronically stored information (ESI).

Dean is a frequent speaker on topics involving intellectual property, including:

• Patent Drafting Bootcamp at the MidMichigan Innovation Center
• Intellectual Property Webinar for VetBizCentral
• IP-related talks at TechTown Detroit and DC3S
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about IP But Were Afraid to Ask at Midland Tomorrow, a private non-profit, in cooperation with Northwood University during Entrepreneurship Week

Contact us to schedule Dean as a speaker.

Dean brings an entrepreneurial spirit to his work and enjoys sharing in his clients’ successes. He is committed to keeping open communication with his clients and is readily available to answer their questions in a timely manner.

In his spare time, Dean enjoys traveling with his wife Laurie and cheering on the continued successes of his children. He enjoys running and working on his 1969 Dodge Charger RT SE. Dean is also the inventor on four patents relating to an electronic security trading system, including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,788,398, 8,175,956, 7,552,085 and 7,356,499.