Benjamin Edlavitch
Attorney at Law
Education
Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Juris Doctorate
- Senior Editor of the Chicago-Kent Journal of International and
Comparative Law
- Associate Editor of the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual
Property Law
- CALI Award for academic excellence in Trade and Intellectual
Property Rights
University of Illinois, Chicago
- Bachelor of Science Candidate in Electrical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
- Professional Certificate in Computer Information Systems,
awarded with distinction
Washington University in St. Louis
- Bachelor of Arts and Sciences
Bar Admissions
The State of Illinois
The United States Patent and Trademark Office
Associations
The Chicago Bar Association
The Illinois Bar Association
The American Intellectual Property Law Association
Ben focuses on United States and International patent prosecution in the areas of
software, business methods, and consumer products. Ben also provides trademark
and copyright services and counseling.
In addition to his intellectual property focus, Ben provides commercial law services
to his Illinois clients, including partnership agreements, articles of incorporation,
nondisclosure agreements, intellectual property license agreements, and Uniform
Commercial Code filings.
Before starting his own practice, Ben was a patent agent with Hanley, Flight, and
Zimmerman LLC, where he provided technical consulting and counseling on a
variety of patent law issues.
Prior to practicing law, Ben designed and developed web-based software for a
number of companies, including Mac Publishing LLC, Morgan Stanley, and Land
O'Lakes, Inc. In addition to his experience as a software engineer, Ben is an IBM
Certified Solutions Developer for XML and Related Technologies and a Sun
Microsystems Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform.

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