24HourIP, PLLC
An intellectual property law firm serving individuals, businesses of all sizes, law firms, and other service professionals.
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Why Choose 24HourIP
Thomas J. Satagaj
- Trusted Strategic Partner
- Accountable, Ethical, & Having The Highest Integrity
- Leader, Independent Thinker, & Loyal Team Player
- Executes Complex Legal Projects
- Provides Actionable Legal Advice
- Delivers Measurable Performance
- Business-Minded, Self-Motivated, & Effective
- Organizational & Time Management Strengths
- IP Portfolio Visionary; Innovative & Relentlessly Curious
- Inspires, Harvests, & Protects IP
- Uses IP to Defend & Grow Value
- Develops Long-Standing Relationships
- Large Network Of U.S. & Foreign Tech & Legal Industry Peers
- Coaches & Develops Others
- Creative, Operational Leadership Style
- Skilled Presentor & Negotiator
- Aligns Budget With Business Objectives & Priorities
- Handles Substantial Work Volume
- Thrives In Fast-Paced Environment With Competing Urgencies & Priorities
- Ensures Priorities & Deliverables Are Met
- Manager of People & Projects
Background
Tom Satagaj is a former Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Ubicquia and a former partner at Seed IP Law Group. Tom was raised in Connecticut, graduated (cum laude) from the University of Bridgeport with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, minor in Mathematics (1987) and went on to receive a J.D. (cum laude) from Seattle University (2006). He is a patent attorney licensed in the State of Washington (Bar. No. 38,988) and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 62,391).
Experience
At Ubicquia, Tom led in-house patent, trademark, and trade secret (IP) portfolio development and advised on the company's strategic growth. He built a culture of innovation for an industrial IOT leader that specializes in smart streetlight controllers, LTE and 5G small cells, utility grid monitors, and other smart-city, sensor-based technologies. Tom conducted negotiations with Tier 1 telecom carriers, Fortune 500 infrastructure providers, and other strategic partners, and he owned over 200 business matters concerning mergers and acquisitions (M&A), employment, corporate finance, technology licensing, branding, corporate policies, and partnerships.
At Seed IP, Tom offered IP and legal counsel to over 100 clients including individual inventors, partnerships, small and mid-sized businesses, and Fortune 100 companies. He drafted nearly 200 patent applications for inventions covering electronics, AI, IOT, IIOT, smart city innovation, medical devices, complex software, and other technologies. In addition to growing IP portfolios for clients and minimizing and mitigating risk through offensive and defensive licensing, including non-practicing entities (NPEs), patent pools, and SEPs, Tom conducted patent post-grant review matters and provided litigation management and support, drafting dozens of legal opinions on invalidity, non-infringement, and FTO. He also designed and negotiated a wide range of commercial arrangements, too numerous to include in full, but covering matters that include M&A, privacy, marketing, employment, award programs, joint development, and service agreements. In his years of practicing law, Tom has developed proficiency as an IP attorney, senior corporate counsel, and risk manager skilled at translating legal, commercial, and regulatory mandates to provide reasoned, straightforward counsel to C-suite executives, attorneys, clients, and operational staff. He leverages his deep EE/CS engineering background and intellectual property law expertise to deliver sophisticated, execution-focused work product and legal advice, focusing on quickly and efficiently achieving positive, client-oriented results. To bolster his legal practice, Tom has more than 15 years of industry experience bringing electronic systems from initial concept through design, manufacturing, and market delivery. He is well-versed in many facets of high and low-level software, electronics, and engineering design methodologies. Tom has expert level knowledge of several microprocessor families, electronic communication protocols, electronic devices, software architectures (including FOSS), and as an engineer, he specialized in digital electronics integration and embedded systems. Tom began his career at Norden Systems, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), writing embedded software for advanced military radar and ballistics systems. Later, he moved to another UTC division, Otis Elevator, to work on high-rise elevator controllers. Tom then joined Measurement Systems International (MSI), an industrial weighing systems manufacturer, where he designed, developed, and integrated world-class industrial weighing systems. Before embarking on a legal career, Tom worked as an architect level engineer and engineering manager at BSQUARE Corporation, where he led engineering teams in the design and integration of consumer electronic and cellular telecom systems built around Microsoft’s family of embedded operating systems.
At Seed IP, Tom offered IP and legal counsel to over 100 clients including individual inventors, partnerships, small and mid-sized businesses, and Fortune 100 companies. He drafted nearly 200 patent applications for inventions covering electronics, AI, IOT, IIOT, smart city innovation, medical devices, complex software, and other technologies. In addition to growing IP portfolios for clients and minimizing and mitigating risk through offensive and defensive licensing, including non-practicing entities (NPEs), patent pools, and SEPs, Tom conducted patent post-grant review matters and provided litigation management and support, drafting dozens of legal opinions on invalidity, non-infringement, and FTO. He also designed and negotiated a wide range of commercial arrangements, too numerous to include in full, but covering matters that include M&A, privacy, marketing, employment, award programs, joint development, and service agreements. In his years of practicing law, Tom has developed proficiency as an IP attorney, senior corporate counsel, and risk manager skilled at translating legal, commercial, and regulatory mandates to provide reasoned, straightforward counsel to C-suite executives, attorneys, clients, and operational staff. He leverages his deep EE/CS engineering background and intellectual property law expertise to deliver sophisticated, execution-focused work product and legal advice, focusing on quickly and efficiently achieving positive, client-oriented results. To bolster his legal practice, Tom has more than 15 years of industry experience bringing electronic systems from initial concept through design, manufacturing, and market delivery. He is well-versed in many facets of high and low-level software, electronics, and engineering design methodologies. Tom has expert level knowledge of several microprocessor families, electronic communication protocols, electronic devices, software architectures (including FOSS), and as an engineer, he specialized in digital electronics integration and embedded systems. Tom began his career at Norden Systems, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), writing embedded software for advanced military radar and ballistics systems. Later, he moved to another UTC division, Otis Elevator, to work on high-rise elevator controllers. Tom then joined Measurement Systems International (MSI), an industrial weighing systems manufacturer, where he designed, developed, and integrated world-class industrial weighing systems. Before embarking on a legal career, Tom worked as an architect level engineer and engineering manager at BSQUARE Corporation, where he led engineering teams in the design and integration of consumer electronic and cellular telecom systems built around Microsoft’s family of embedded operating systems.
Technical Focus
As an IP and business attorney, Tom’s focus is on companies that innovate in and around embedded and digital electronics, microprocessor technologies, telecom technologies, high and low-level software including distributed ledger/blockchain technologies (fintech and non-fintech), machine learning/artificial intelligence/neural networks, image processing, web technologies, and the Internet of Things (IoT and industrial IOT). He also has deep knowledge of medical devices, industrial devices, and the mechanical arts. His patent practice has also covered inventions pertaining to a wide variety of digital circuits, sensors, MEMS devices, semiconductors, memory devices, nuclear tech., automotive tech,, industrial systems, wireless communication, telecom, 5G, LTE, embedded systems, firmware, open source, SaaS, NaaS, PaaS, cloud services, complex software, machine vision, business methods, and many others. His business law practice has provided advice and actionable work product encompassing award programs, board advisement, contracts, corporate governance, employment, government compliance and regulation (Buy America Act, Made in USA policy, FAR, DFAR, FCC), infosec standards (ISO27001, SOC2), intellectual property law (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret), legal research, legal writing, legal opinions (FTO), licensing, litigation support, master services agreements, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), negotiation, reseller agreements, patent assertion and defense (including PAE’s, NPE’s, SEP’s, and patent pools), privacy and data regulations (GDPR, CCPA), supply agreements, and whistleblower agreements.
Affiliations
Tom is admitted to the Washington State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) and serve for seven years on WSBA’s Intellectual Property Section Executive Committee, most recently as president and past-president. Additionally, Tom is a member of the King County Bar Association (KCBA) and also affiliated with the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Washington State Patent Law Association (WSPLA), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Licensing Executive Society (LES), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).
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