Bryan Lempia brings a diverse professional background to LSK. He has extensive experience in U.S. and foreign intellectual property matters. Bryan has obtained design and utility patent protection for clients involved in a vast array of technologies in various industries. He has written and prosecuted countless U.S. origin design and utility patent applications and has handled U.S. filing and prosecution for foreign originated cases from non-U.S. clients and associates.

During his career, Bryan has rendered legal opinions and counseled clients on a wide variety of products, industrial designs, technologies and legal issues. He has advised clients in maintaining, building, evaluating and protecting their IP portfolios. Bryan also has been involved in patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation matters and in trademark litigation and opposition proceedings.

Prior to forming a small firm in 2005 that evolved to become LSK, Bryan was a partner in a large, well respected IP firm in Chicago. He brings invaluable experience from firms big and small and has worked in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Detroit at IP firms as diverse as these metropolitan areas.

Non-Legal Experience

Bryan’s professional career began as a mechanical engineer with the Chrysler Corporation. As an engineer, he gained business experience, budget insight and technical expertise in product design, testing, development, manufacturing and quality assurance. His entrepreneurial spirit, work ethic and dedication to client service was forged before and during college as he learned to repair and restore cars for himself and others.