Mark A. Taylor is the founding and managing member of Carteret IP. Mr. Taylor concentrates his practice in the areas of patent procurement and litigation support, and trademark registration and dispute resolution.

 

He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts in North Carolina and is a federally registered patent attorney. Prior to founding Carteret IP, Mr. Taylor was of counsel for the Lexington, Kentucky firm of Stoll, Keenon Ogden, PLLC, as a founding member of their intellectual property group.  Prior to that Mr. Taylor helped establish the intellectual property practice group for McGuireWoods in Richmond, Va. Before that, and after graduation from law school, he was an associate for the Charlotte intellectual property firm of Shefte, Pinckney & Sawyer.

 

Mr. Taylor is a 1987 graduate of the Lee College of Engineering of the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, where he finished in the top five of his class with a BS, cum laude, in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his juris doctorate degree from Wake Forest University in 1990. Prior to his educational endeavors, he served in the United States Navy as an ocean-going electronics technician.

 

Mr. Taylor has provided intellectual property services to a wide range of clients, from individual inventors to small companies to NASCAR teams and Fortune 500 companies, such as Lexmark, Hamilton-Beach and Bosch Home Appliances. Mr. Taylor also has significant experience handling outsourced work.

 

Some of the technical fields Mr. Taylor has worked in include:

Home Appliances, Including Ranges, Refrigerators, Dishwashers, Laundry Washers And Dryers; Medical Devices; Textile Machinery; Threads and Coatings; Industrial Manufacturing Process Machines and Controls;  Arcade Games; Railroad Inspection Equipment; Filters; Automotive Propulsion and Transmissions; Telephone Systems; Power Generation; Artificial Turf; Horse Track Surfaces; Tobacco Curing Methods and Apparatus; Hand Tools; CNC Water-Jet Systems; GPS-based Aircraft Instruments; Software and Business Methods; and General Electrical and Mechanical Devices.