Ingram, Damani K.

Clifford D. Hyra is a member of Symbus Law Group, LLC and the author of the intellectual property law blog Patents 101.

Clifford is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in the field of intellectual property. He has a background in aerospace engineering and graduated magna cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law. Clifford spent several years managing a heavy patent and trademark docket at an IP boutique firm in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, before moving on to found Hyra IP, PLC and then to merge his practie into Symbus Law Group. He is licensed to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia and to represent clients located anywhere in the country before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Clifford specializes in domestic and international patent and trademark prosecution and has filed and prosecuted hundreds of patent and trademark applications. He also has considerable experience negotiating the settlement of patent and trademark disputes, conducting trademark cancellation and opposition proceedings, carrying out appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, registering copyrights, drafting contracts for the transfer of copyrights, resolving domain name disputes, drafting patent opinions, conducting patent and trademark searches, and more.

Clifford's clients run the gamut from individual entrepreneurs to multinational corporations. His clients include many businesses in the local Reston/Fairfax County/Northern Virginia area as well as all across the country and overseas.