Tracy Jong (Patent Attorney, Trademark Attorney) is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In addition to a doctorate of law, Ms. Jong has scientific and technical training in the chemical arts as well as more than 14 years of general practice experience. With a practice focused upon independent and small business inventors, Tracy Jong strives to develop practical and cost effective intellectual property protection and exploitation strategies based on the business objectives of her clients. Ms. Jong has prosecuted patents in technologies including foam products, manufacturing processes, medical equipment, consumer products, coal processes, diamond deposition processes, clay slurry processes and products, nanomagnetic compositions and processes, manufacturing apparatus, workplace safety devices, imaging technologies and other mechanical arts. Our in-house patent staff also consists of registered U.S. patent agents and professional engineer specializing in mechanical, software and electrical inventions. Please see a comprehensive list of our technical competencies.
Ms. Jong enjoys working with "independent inventors" and "new inventors" who are new to the patent process, with a down-to-earth and approachable style. She enjoys working with inventors at the early stages of the inventive process, assisting in the protection, development and exploitation of those inventions. In a very real sense, the success of her clients is like her own success!
There is no second chance to patent your idea after someone else has claimed the idea as their own invention. Tracy Jong believes that information is power - informed decisions can only be made when you have all of the useful information available. A patent attorney can be helpful in explaining how to get a patent (the patent process) and what is required to apply for a patent. We encourage you to review the information available on this website. It is intended to provide useful information about intellectual property and addresses subject matter that is frequently encountered by Tracy Jong in counseling clients.
Most independent inventors do not have unlimited budgets to invest in legal protection. Tracy Jong understands that, and uses her expertise to provide you with information about all of the tools available to you. Armed with a toolbox of legal protection options, you will be in a better position to ascertain which investments will give you the “biggest bang for the buck.” If you decide to proceed with a patent filing, a patent attorney can work with you to create a protection strategy that makes the most of your money.
How do you know if your idea is unique? Working with a patent lawyer, you can have a patent search performed to learn more about patents in the area of your invention. Patentability searches are not exhaustive (there is big universe of non-patent publications around the world), however, they are useful in learning what technology exists in the same area, what technologies are already patented and whether there is a dominating claim in another patent that might bear upon the subject matter you intend to claim as your invention. In some cases, a patent claiming the same invention is discovered. Patent searches may weed out some subject matter at early stages before additional resources are invested in developing the invention and/or patenting the idea.
Although we are willing to assist inventors who have written their own applications, we encourage inventors to use our expertise in at least reviewing the patent application prior to filing with the Patent Office. A patent application is a complex legal document. Inventors may spend more money prosecuting a weakly drafted application that they would have spent on professional assistance during the drafting process. In some cases, the weaknesses cannot be overcome, and the opportunity to obtain a patent is regrettably lost.
Tracy P. Jong, Esq.
Tracy P. Jong, Esq. concentrates her practice on client counseling, patent and trademark preparation and prosecution, copyright procurement, licensing, technology transfer and technology exploitation. She is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Bar of New York. In addition to her New York clients, Ms. Jong has represented patent and trademark clients from distant locales such as Florida, Tennesee, Arizona and Canada. She has experience in the chemical, materials science, biotechnology, consumer products, and mechanical arts. Co-chairing with Jeffrey H. LaBarge, Ms. Jong chairs the Monroe County Bar Intellectual Property Law Committee and is active in Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association. Ms. Jong was a presenter at numerous local Bar Association continuing legal education seminars on patent and intellectual property law and offered intellectual property related courses through Rochester Info-Courses and other venues. Ms. Jong is also a member of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys.
Tracy P. Jong, Esq. has more than a decade of experience in litigation, licensing, contracts and general practice. She graduated cum laude in 1993 from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center where she was elected an editor of the Law Review. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1990, earning two highest academic achievement awards. During law school, she earned four American Jurisprudence Awards, a School Service Award, worked as a research assistant and served as a teaching assistant. During law school, Ms. Jong's summers were spent in Paris, France clerking at a law firm and attending comparative law courses through Tulane Law School and University of San Diego Law School. She earned an Academic Achievement Award from University of San Diego Law School. Prior to law school, she worked in management consulting for Fortune 500 companies at Moran, Stahl & Boyer in midtown Manhattan. After several years as a litigation attorney in Long Island and metropolitan New York, she managed a public power company and municipal government in western New York for eight years. Ms. Jong is actively engaged with the local community, frequently speaking to community groups on health care proxies, living wills and end of life decision making. She has served as an attorney advisor for a high school mock trial team, as a member and chairperson on the Surrogate Court Decision Making Committee, the Board of Directors for a teen center, and has actively participated in local community affairs.
For more than 7 years, Ms. Jong was appointed the Administrator of a municipal Village government. Her duties extended beyond municipal litigation issues, local law drafting, and conducting local elections. Ms. Jong managed the municipal electric utility, negotiating intermunicipal service agreements for extraterritorial utility districts, franchise negotiation for cable utility, working with outside counsel on electric infrastructure lease and property agreements, Public Service Commission rate cases and energy supply agreements. She also negotiated utility and municipal easements and property agreements for corporate park development and residential new construction, service agreements for intermunicipal fire districts, intermunicipal public works cooperation agreements, and tax agreements. As manager of municipal budget of over $3.5 million, she was responsible for public bid and contract preparation and administration, budgeting, bonding, payroll, purchasing auditing and report preparation, grant administration, risk management and insurance administration. As the chief tax official, she was responsible for property tax assessment, tax roll preparation and tax collecting. As the chief personnel officer, Ms. Jong was primarily responsible for Union contract negotiation/administration as well as Civil Service and personnel benefits administration for a 12 person staff. Her duties also included building inspection, environmental compliance review, fire marshal and zoning administration, and overseeing all aspects of capital improvement projects (highway, sewer and electric).
As an Associate for Hopkins, Kopilow & Weil (Garden City, NY), Ms. Jong handled federal and state general practice civil litigation and appeals. Her work involved municipal litigation for County of Nassau and Village of Valley Stream including GML § 50-h hearings, depositions, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, contracts, opinion letters, hearings, arbitrations and oral arguments. She also attended criminal court arraignments, conferences, plea bargaining, dispositions and traffic court appearances.
As an Associate for Charles P. DeMartin, Esq. (Huntington, NY), Ms. Jong handled pleadings, discovery and motion practice in matrimonial, negligence and commercial breach of contract cases. She also drafted various real estate and commercial documents, attended civil court appearances, criminal court arraignments, conferences, plea bargaining,and traffic court appearances and dispositions.
As an Associate with Paul Kalker, Esq., CPA (Melville, NY), Ms. Jong handled litigation from intake to trial for a general practice in commercial litigation, business formation, acquisition, tax and general business, matrimonial, real estate, trusts and estates, collections, negligence, insurance, construction and bankruptcy law. She was primarily responsible for the firm’s document preparation and all court appearances, research, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, and real estate contracts.
During her undergraduate studies, Ms. Jong interned as a Legal Representative at the State Attorney General’s Office Consumer Division (Buffalo, NY) as well as Erie County Court Pretrial Services (Buffalo, NY).
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