Principal | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe | USA
Mr. Leo V. Gureff is a registered U.S. patent attorney with broad experience in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related IP matters. He drafts and prosecutes utility and design patent applications for domestic and international clients across mechanical and biomedical technologies, materials science, semiconductor devices, and chemical processing. His practice also includes trademark prosecution, brand enforcement, and extensive work within Amazon’s dispute-resolution and brand-protection platforms.
Mr. Gureff has significant experience structuring and negotiating cross-border technology transactions and joint technological ventures. He regularly advises companies on international R&D collaborations, multi-jurisdictional partnership arrangements, technology-transfer frameworks, and strategic alliance agreements, as well as VAR/OEM relationships, master services agreements, and outsourcing contracts. His work often involves aligning IP ownership, commercialization pathways, and regulatory considerations across multiple jurisdictions. He also represents clients in UDRP domain-name disputes.
An experienced lecturer, Mr. Gureff frequently presents on U.S. patent practice and international IP strategy. Fluent in Russian, he regularly travels throughout post-Soviet regions to advise clients and deliver invited presentations.
