REGISTERED PATENT ATTORNEY

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Raymond G. Areaux is a founding partner of the firm, where he chairs the firm’s intellectual property practice group. He served as Managing Member in the founding year of the Firm and for a three-year term in 2010-2012.

Client Services

His practice is devoted to obtaining, licensing and litigating all manner of intellectual property rights. His primary practice areas are computers and software, patents, trademarks, brands, domain names, trade secrets, media law, copyright, unfair competition and franchises. He is a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics. He also advises clients on database breach, security, privacy policies and other issues, including under the CCPA/CPRA, GDRP, HIPAA and GLB. Mr. Areaux’s experience includes prosecuting patents in the electronic arts, software arts, web-based delivery arts, biotech arts, and mechanical arts; negotiating licensing, outsourcing and technology transfer agreements; prosecuting and maintaining a large variety of trademarks, service marks and brands; litigating patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright infringement and licensing disputes and litigating other contract disputes involving technology, including patent infringement claims against the United States government, including claims against the Department of Defense military departments; litigating domain name disputes, including UDRP and ACPA disputes; litigating patent matters before the PTAB and trademark matters before the TTAB; and arbitrating computer software licensing and transactions disputes. Mr. Areaux also assists his clients in preparing and negotiating organizational and operating documents for corporations and limited liability companies and related agreements as well as agreements for the acquisition or divestiture of companies and/or their assets, including angel, venture capital and other private capital investment arrangements.

Mediation and Arbitration Services

Mr. Areaux is often asked to serve as a mediator or arbitrator for patent, trademark, licensing, software contract or other intellectual property disputes.  Mr. Areaux has served as an arbitrator with the AAA since 1994 and is designated for the special roster for AAA Large/Complex matters.

Nonprofit Service

Domestic Violence Grants Subcommittee of the Louisiana Bar Foundation Grants Committee (Chair 2012-2017; committee 2008-2017)

Loyola Law School Dean's Committee (Chair 2020-2023, member since 2015)

Other

Adjunct Law Professor, Loyola University School of Law, teaching “Trademarks and Unfair Competition” for 25 years and “Information Privacy Law” for 8 years

Tulane Law School, Head of Tulane Trademark Clinic (2018-2021)

Member of EO (Entrepreneurs Organization) and Board member (FORUM Chair) (2015-2020)

Member of two Angel investment groups, Lagniappe Angels and South Coast Angel Fund; and former member, and now affiliated through Lagniappe, with NOLA Angel Network

Other Professional Experience: former product development engineer with IBM and former systems engineer with Conoco

AV® Preeminent™ – Peer Review Rated
Martindale-Hubbell 2011

 

Best Lawyers Award Badge

Areaux Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year 2021

Ray 2023

Areaux, Raymond

Top Lawyers 2021

 

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Year Admitted to Practice

  • 1985

Education

  • Tulane University, B.S. Computer Science, 1978
  • Tulane University, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1978
  • Loyola Law School, J.D., 1985

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • All Louisiana state and federal courts
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

HONORS

  • Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" - New Orleans Area 2024: Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business - Intellectual Property
  • Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year" - New Orleans Area 2021: Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Loyola Law Review
  • AV Preeminent- Peer Review Rated
  • Martindale-Hubbell 2011
  • Best Lawyers (since 2016): Commercial Litigation; Corporate Law; Litigation-Intellectual Property; Technology Law
  • Super Lawyers- Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation

Affiliations

  • Registered Patent Attorney since 1989
  • Gulf Coast Data Breach, Security and Privacy Summit (Co-Founder/Co-Host)
  • American Arbitration Association (arbitrator) and specially designated for Large/Complex matters (AAA)
  • JEDCO Challenge (Judge 2019 and for four of the last five years prior to COVID)
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
  • International Trademark Association (past member of Editorial Board, Trademark Reporter)
  • American Bar Association (Intellectual Property Law Section, Antitrust Section, Business Law Section and Litigation Section)
  • Past Member of Advisory Board, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, Tulane University
  • Licensed Professional Engineer (Electrical Engineering) (now inactive)
  • Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Original member of the UCITA study committee for the Louisiana State Law Institute
  • Former Member, National Society of Professional Engineers
  • Former Member, Louisiana Engineering Society
  • Tau Beta Pi
  • Eta Kappa Nu
    https://law.loyno.edu/academics/faculty-and-staff-directory/raymond-g-areaux

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