IP attorney focused on advancing your business goals

Keith Taboada joined the firm in 1999. He practices patent, copyright, and trademark law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, portfolio management, and client counseling. Keith also supports the firm’s litigation and transactional practice groups, having played key roles in successful trade secret, trademark and patent litigations.

Keith focuses on obtaining meaningful and useful intellectual property assets that advance your critical business goals essential for building and growing market share, protecting margins, protecting and realizing returns on R&D investment, and generally increasing corporate value. Keith believes that insightful collaboration with both innovators and business leaders is essential for building sustainable, readily detectable and commercially valuable intellectual property portfolios.

Keith has extensive experience in US and global matters across a wide variety of technologies. Represented technologies include artillery projectiles, robotic surgical systems, chip packaging, chip testing equipment, in-situ and ex-situ heat transfer devices for chip packages, electric arc furnace and metal shop equipment, semiconductor processing equipment and integrated circuit fabrication techniques, flat panel displays, solar cells, catalyst injection equipment and related processes, air filtration and contamination systems, cosmetic containers, robotics, heavy equipment, disk drive motors and memory materials, downhole oil field sensing equipment, and automotive components.

Prior to joining the firm, Keith was employed as a mechanical engineer, primarily designing factory automation systems, high efficiency HEPA air filtration products, solenoid valves, and metering pumps. Keith was also directly responsible for obtaining ISO 9001 certification for one of the world’s largest air filtration companies.

Outside of work, Keith has served as an adjunct law school professor, elected school board member, VP of Special Events for the International Lightning Class Association, and head coach for a woman’s high school sailing team. When not sailboat racing, Keith can often be found offshore chasing Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Nothing better than talking to you about how Patterson + Sheridan can become your indispensable intellectual property counselors over a couple of fresh tuna steaks!