Schedule Your Free Consultation — Austin Patent Attorney

If you are an inventor, startup founder, technology company, or law firm in Austin, Texas or anywhere in the United States looking for a USPTO-registered patent attorney who brings genuine engineering depth to every matter — not just legal expertise — I would like to hear from you.

The Law Office of Sean Christian Connolly is a boutique patent law practice based in Austin, Texas, built specifically for clients whose technology is too sophisticated and too commercially valuable to entrust to a generalist or a high-volume patent mill where your application is drafted by a junior associate who has never worked in your technology area.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin — where I studied quantum mechanics, tensor calculus, classical dynamics, and electromagnetic theory — and spent more than seven years as a semiconductor manufacturing process engineer specializing in laser lithography before attending law school at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio and building an 17-year USPTO patent prosecution practice. I am also Unix certified. That combination — physics education, semiconductor fabrication engineering experience, and nearly two decades of active patent prosecution across software and AI, semiconductor and electronics, medical device and biotech, mechanical and general engineering, PCT international patents, and every major area of intellectual property law — is what makes the Law Office of Sean Christian Connolly different from every other patent attorney option available to Austin inventors and technology companies.

I work directly with every client from the first consultation through prosecution, portfolio strategy, and beyond — no paralegals, no associates, no delegation to someone without the technical background to engage with your invention at the level it deserves.

My practice covers the full range of patent and IP services including provisional and utility patent applications, design patents, patent prosecution and USPTO practice, responding to Office Actions, continuation and continuation-in-part applications, patent portfolio management, freedom to operate opinions, patent validity and invalidity opinions, IP due diligence, patent valuation, non-infringement opinions, IP assignment agreements, joint development agreements, non-disclosure agreements, patent licensing agreements, trade secret protection, trademark registration and enforcement, copyright registration, IP-focused business formation, startup IP strategy consultation, university and research institution IP, of counsel services for law firms, USPTO filing for foreign applicants, fractional IP counsel, international patent strategy, and inter partes review support.

I serve clients throughout Austin — including the Domain, the Arboretum, the 183 technology corridor, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Georgetown, and the greater Central Texas region — as well as clients throughout Texas including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and the Texas Triangle, and clients nationwide and internationally who need technically sophisticated USPTO patent prosecution and IP strategy counsel.

My office is located at 9442 Capital of Texas Highway North, Arboretum Plaza One, Suite 500-153, Austin, Texas 78759, in the heart of Austin's northwest technology corridor convenient to the semiconductor and software companies along Research Boulevard and Capital of Texas Highway.

Free 30-minute consultations are available by phone or video Monday through Friday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm Central Time.

To schedule your free consultation, call or text (512) 293-0710, email sconnolly@austin-patent-attorney.com, or fill out the contact form and I will respond promptly.

All communications are confidential under attorney-client privilege from the first contact. No obligation.