ABOUT US
At Accelerate IP, we’re more than just patent attorneys and trademark attorneys – we’re entrepreneurs who understand your journey because we’re living it ourselves. Our founding attorneys are active business builders who operate their own startups outside the firm, bringing real-world experience to every client relationship. This unique perspective allows us to provide intellectual property protection, trademark registration, business formation guidance, and FDA regulatory compliance services that truly understand the challenges and opportunities facing innovative companies today.
We built our practice around the belief that great IP law requires more than legal expertise – it demands entrepreneurial insight. Our patent attorneys and trademark attorneys combine deep intellectual property law knowledge with proven experience in business development, patent strategy, trademark protection, product commercialization, and FDA compliance. This distinctive approach enables us to anticipate the IP challenges and regulatory hurdles you’ll face, providing strategic guidance that goes beyond traditional legal services to help your business thrive in competitive markets.
What truly sets Accelerate IP apart is our commitment to innovation in legal practice itself. Our in-house 3D printing lab features four professional printers and advanced CAD design capabilities, allowing us to bring creative solutions to intellectual property law through patent visualization and prototype development. This technological approach, combined with our entrepreneurial background and comprehensive expertise in both IP protection and FDA compliance, positions us to deliver practical, results-driven counsel that accelerates your path from innovation to market success.
About Attorney
Clark Proffitt
Attorney Clark Proffitt’s intellectual property, patent law and business law practice focuses on helping small businesses and inventors innovate, increase their standing in the marketplace, and realize their vision. He excels in guiding his clients through the often-confusing maze of financial and legal decisions to create strategies that ensure their security and support the accomplishment of cherished business and personal goals. His considerable legal expertise includes prosecution, litigation, and transactions in copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as planning strategies for small business owners. Whether you are a single inventor or an established business with a large research and development budget, or whether you are just choosing a brand or trying to protect a well-earned reputation, Clark will help you craft a strategy that uses the tools available under the law to achieve your goals for your business today and for years to come.
Clark earned a B.Sc in biochemistry from Brigham Young University in 2005 and performed research in organic photochemistry under Dr. Stephen Fleming. He went on to graduate magna cum laude from the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law in 2008. He was a Center Scholar for the Center for Law, Science and Technology and a staff writer and articles editor for Arizona State University Law Journal. Clark passed the patent bar while still in law school and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2007), the State Bar of Arizona (2008), the U.S. District Court, Arizona (2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (2010), and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2011). He had a prominent role in litigating the case that updated the standard for the award of attorneys’ fees in a trademark infringement case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Clark has worked as an intellectual property attorney and patent attorney since 2008 and worked on a wide variety of technologies
Clark was famous in his neighborhood when he survived a fall off an 80-foot cliff, which he describes as being a lot like starting your own business. He is an entrepreneur himself and knows how challenging it can be to bring a new product to market. He has worked with many small businesses and startups over the course of his career, and he enjoys educating people, providing seminars and other educational opportunities to his community and teaches contract drafting as an adjunct professor at the Rogers College of Law at University of Arizona. Clark is passionate about helping people use the law to fulfill their vision for their business.
Most importantly, Clark is the proud husband to his wife, Margaret, and dad to four kids (Booker, Ike, Asher, and Miriam) two dogs (Minty and Rosie), two tortoises (Fezzik and Buttercup), and 8 trees (no names… they’re trees).
About Attorney
Burt Skiba
Attorney Burt Skiba, an experienced engineer, focuses his practice on intellectual property law. Burt advises a wide range of companies in all manner of transactions involving intellectual property matters and strategy, including, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other IP related matters. Burt specializes in early-stage startups helping establish and implementing an intellectual property plan.
Burt has significant experience taking an invention from concept to helping with the design and then turning that design into a patent application. Burt has four 3D printers, and SolidWorks CAD program to help his clients develop their inventions. Burt has six patents, and another four pending patent applications. Burt focuses his practice in trademark and copyright law and has helped businesses develop his client’s brand and protect that brand once established.
Prior to law school, Burt worked as a mechanical engineer for 11 years, and has extensive technical experience with complex systems such as turbine engines, rockets, missiles and medical device testing. While as an engineer Burt received his MBA in Finance. During law school, Burt worked for the Naval Surface Warfare Center and a large law firm where he wrote multiple patent applications on a broad range of technologies. Burt uses his engineering and business experience within his law practice to help his clients protect their ideas, brands, and original works building value in your company. Burt has formed three startups, two of which are still going, of his own and knows what it takes to start and protect your business and intellectual property.
Burt has a B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University, MBA in Finance and a Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University.
Burt is licensed in Alabama and Washington D.C. and works on Federal IP Matters.
Burt spends his free time with his wife and five kids, taking his dogs “Oakley and Mav” and kids hunting and fishing every chance he gets, designing new products and taking his kids golfing.
Burt’s current startups he is working on are the following:
FDA Compliance Expert
Jeff Skiba
Jeff Skiba has more than 35 years’ experience in leading medical device corporate development, design innovation and commercialization of first-to-market concepts. Jeff’s Expertise is in Bioelectrical Tissue Regeneration models and applications, Tissue Regeneration Models, Soft and Hard Tissue Regeneration, Antimicrobials and Antivirals in tissue regeneration, Expanded PTFE design and manufacturing. An experienced CEO and CTO his focus is on helping early stage start-up companies through the rigors of design reviews and regulatory strategies, Quality Systems, building value into the startup through early tier development and finance strategies.
With over 25 patents across cardiovascular, orthopedic, OB/GYN, and biologic tissue technologies, Jeff has successfully navigated the complete product development lifecycle from invention to FDA clearance for multiple medical devices in orthopedic and women’s health applications without one rejection!
Jeff has a BSBE in Biomechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and a BSBA in Business Admin & Management from the University of Phoenix.
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