Protecting Visions for a Brighter Future™
Protecting Visions for a Brighter Future™
High Quality And Cost-Effective
Lhota & Associates, P.A. is a full service intellectual property law firm. We are dedicated to providing high quality, cost-effective legal services for the purpose of protecting patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. We help our clients protect inventions, software, business and product names and logos, proprietary information, writings, creative works, websites and other intellectual property assets.
U.S. And International
For our clients, we prepare, file and prosecute applications for U.S. and international registration of patents, trademarks and copyrights. We handle disputes and litigation involving unfair competition, infringement, and other intellectual property and commercial matters. In addition, we prepare, review, and negotiate a broad array of contracts, including license agreements and other business and commercial contracts.
Experience
We have the experience and know-how necessary to handle your intellectual property needs. The firm’s founder, David Lhota, is a Registered Patent Attorney and a Florida Bar Board Certified Expert in Intellectual Property Law. Board Certification is The Florida Bar’s highest level of evaluation of attorney competency and experience.
David P. Lhota, Esq. The Vision Protector™
David P. Lhota P.A.
David P. Lhota P.A. understands the complexities of the creative mind. His commitment is to protecting the ideas, dreams, and visions that his clients bring to him. One of his clients affectionately labeled him, The Vision Protector™. DAVID P. LHOTA is a registered patent attorney and Florida Bar Certified Expert in Intellectual Property having substantial experience in the patenting and trademark process, litigation and electrical engineering. Mr. Lhota has broad patent prosecution experience in the electronics field, including software, control systems, cellular communications, pager technology, computers, local area networks, server data traffic management, intelligent controllers, electro-hydraulic and pneumatic control systems, automated measuring instruments, radios and medical instrumentation. Mr. Lhota has also litigated patent, trademark and copyright cases in Federal Court. In addition, he has represented clients in negotiating and drafting intellectual property related licenses and other contracts.
David Listens with His Heart and Mind
DAVID P. LHOTA P.A. was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1965. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University in 1987. While at Tulane, Mr. Lhota was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Mr. Lhota received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in 1994. While at the University of Miami, Mr. Lhota was a legal and technical intern for a local firm and assisted in the preparation prosecution of hundreds of patent applicants. He was also a member of the law school’s Intellectual Property Law Association, and was a student member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Mr. Lhota is a member of the Florida Bar, a Florida Bar Certified Expert in Intellectual Property, a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern most Districts of Florida and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Lhota is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Broward County Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Patent Law Association of South Florida.Prior to law school, Mr. Lhota was an Electrical Systems Design Engineer with Sikorsky Aircraft and Hamilton Standard, both Divisions of United Technologies Corporation. While at Sikorsky, he designed and developed software driven electro-hydraulic test systems for is a registered patent attorney and Florida Bar Certified Expert in Intellectual Property having substantial experience in the patenting and trademark process, litigation and electrical engineering.
Captivating Speaker and Background
Mr. Lhota has broad patent prosecution experience in the electronics field, including software, control systems, cellular communications, pager technology, computers, local area networks, server data traffic management, intelligent controllers, electro-hydraulic and pneumatic control systems, automated measuring instruments, radios and medical instrumentation. Mr. Lhota has also litigated patent, trademark and copyright cases in Federal Court. In addition, he has represented clients in negotiating and drafting intellectual property related licenses and other contracts.