Charles Edwin Runyan

We can help with all of your intellectual property needs; patents, trademarks, copyrights, infringement, trade secret, and more.

Charles 'Chuck' Runyan graduated from Arizona State University with a BS in Chemistry. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M and then his JD law degree at James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is admitted in Arizona, California (inactive), Texas (inactive), and at the USPTO.

Chuck has worked with individual inventors and companies of all sizes for over 20 years. He has held law firm and in-house positions at Bard/Becton Dixon in Tempe, Arizona, ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas, Squire Sanders & Dempsey (now Squire Patton Boggs) in San Francisco, California and Guidant/Abbott Labs in Santa Clara, California.

Chuck has prosecuted and drafted patent applications and managed the prosecution and drafting of hundreds of cases in diverse areas such as natural product pharmaceuticals (including anti-cancer compositions), nutraceuticals, purified microbes, drugs, medical devices such as intravascular stents (and pharmaceutical and polymer coatings for those stents), robotic automation for constructing intravascular stents, intraocular lens materials, semiconductor processing methods and equipment, medical/surgical equipment, software, and industrial-scale polyolefin polymerization and polymerization catalysts.

He has prepared patent and trademark validity and infringement opinions, clearance opinions, and trademark oppositions. He is experienced with conducting domain name dispute arbitrations and negotiating cybersquatting dispute settlements.

James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

J.D. | Law

1995 - 1998

Texas A&M University - College Station

Ph.D. | Chemistry

1988 - 1994

Honors: Robert Welch Fellow

Arizona State University

B.S. (1987) | Chemistry

1984 - 1987

Princeton University

Chemistry

1994 - 1994

Honors: Post-doctoral Research Associate

Owner

Runyan Law

2008 - Current

Managing Member

Integrity Patent Group, PLC

2018 - 2020

Division Staff Attorney, IP

Beckton Dickinson

2013 - 2018

Head, Patent Prosecution

Gallagher & Kennedy

2011 - 2012

Patent drafting and prosecution; trademark prosecution; trade secret litigation; trademark litigation.

Senior Counsel Patents

Abbott Vascular

2006 - 2008

Actively managed a patent portfolio containing more than 500 patent families, provided technology legal counseling to Drug Eluting Stent business and Biologics business, managed new patent filings for these businesses.

Patent Counsel

Guidant Corporation

2005 - 2006

Actively managed a patent portfolio containing more than 500 patent families, provided technology legal counseling to Drug Eluting Stent business and Biologics business, managed new patent filings for these businesses.

Senior Associate

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

2003 - 2005

All facets of intellectual property law including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret litigation and licensing. Actively manage patent portfolios for clients and advise clients with respect to patent strategies. Prepare invalidity and non-infringement opinions related to pharmaceutical compositions, surgical equipment, intravascular stents and implantable polymer compositions (intraocular lens). Prosecute and draft patent applications in many areas such as natural product pharmaceuticals (including anti-cancer compositions) and nutraceuticals, purified microbes, drugs, medical devices such as intravascular stents (and pharmaceutical and polymer coatings for those stents), intraocular lens materials, semiconductor processing methods and equipment, medical/surgical equipment, software, and industrial scale polyolefin polymerization and polymerization catalysts.

Attorney

ExxonMobil Chemical Company

2000 - 2003

Counseled technology groups regarding patent and trade secret issues and intellectual property asset management. Managed intellectual property agreement work including nondisclosure and research agreements while providing legal support to computing management and lab data management teams.

Associate

Gallagher & Kennedy

1998 - 2000

Prosecuted and drafted patent applications in many areas such as natural product pharmaceuticals (including anti-cancer compositions) and nutraceuticals, purified microbes, drugs, semiconductor processing methods and equipment, and software.

Patent Intern

Benman, Collins, & Sawyer

1996 - 1997

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SAFETY NET:

Arizona Journal

November, 1998

Outsourced Programs: Ownership Issues Arise

The National Law Journal-IN FOCUS, Legal Tech.

October, 1998

Early Transition Metal Clusters with ½-Donor Ligands

VCH Publishers: New York

1995

Excising Hexanuclear Zirconium Clusters from Solids as a Route to Zirconium Cluster Solution Chemistry

Journal of the American Chemical Society

1994

California State Bar  # 230296

Member

2004 - Current

Activities: inactive

Texas State Bar

Member

2001 - Current

Activities: inactive

Arizona State Bar

Member

1998 - Current

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Member

1997 - Current

Arizona

Since 1998

California

State Bar of California

ID Number: Inactive

Since 2004

Texas

State Bar of Texas

ID Number: Inactive

Since 2001

U.S. Patent Office

Since 1997

• Credit Cards Accepted

Patents

Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution

Intellectual Property

Trademarks

Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

• Internet
• Copyrights
• General Civil