Korbin is a registered patent attorney and senior associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group, where he helps companies turn their technology into enforceable, commercially useful patent rights. His practice centers on patent preparation and prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, along with portfolio development and counseling for domestic and international filings. Clients from startups and independent inventors through multinational corporations rely on Korbin as a trusted, long-term advisor — many have worked with him across dozens of applications and return to him as their technology and business evolve.
Rather than simply filing patent applications, Korbin works with clients to obtain strategic patent protection. He builds a claiming strategy around the client’s product roadmap, competitive landscape, and business objectives — identifying which innovations warrant protection, how broadly to claim them, when to use continuations to preserve future flexibility, and where design patents or trade secrets may serve better than a utility filing. He also counsels clients on budget-conscious portfolio planning, foreign filing decisions, and positioning patents to support licensing, fundraising, and competitive deterrence. For clients developing new products, Korbin conducts clearance and freedom-to-operate searches early in the design cycle, identifying third-party patents that could pose a risk and working with engineering teams on design-around options before significant development dollars are committed.
Korbin has obtained patents for clients across a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, sporting goods, industrial equipment and machinery, consumer products, software, environmental remediation systems, and electrical distribution and power systems. His technical fluency is grounded in hands-on engineering work: before entering law, Korbin served as a systems engineer at a nuclear power facility and worked in the oil and gas and aerospace industries. Clients consistently describe him as responsive, practical, and genuinely enjoyable to work with — someone who explains patent strategy in plain terms, gives straight answers about risk and cost.
