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.