Charles C. Valauskas

Charles C. Valauskas is counsel to companies, ventures, and educational institutions with emphasis on start-ups based on new product and services concepts and technologies. Chuck is a patent attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2007 he became a founder and partner of Valauskas & Pine.

LL.M. ,Northwestern University School of Law 1985
J.D. DePaul University College of Law 1981
National Wildlife Federal and State of Illinois Governor’s Fellowships
B.S. University of Illinois Chicago 1977
Pan American Petroleum Foundation Fellowship

Registered to practice in and before:
State of Illinois, United District Court for Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Memberships:

• Association of University Technology Managers
• Licensing Executives Society
• Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago
• Illinois State Bar Association

Positions :

• Vice President for Industry Relations (nominee)
• Association of University Technology Managers

Areas of Practice:
Representative clients: universities, national laboratory spin-off companies, developers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of various new product lines (e.g., medical, food, toys, personal care products, lighting systems, monitoring and detection systems), multimedia, software, and virtual reality system developers, service providers using the internet, publishers, individual inventors, artists, and authors.

Related Professional Activities:
Faculty positions held:

• Adjunct Professor, DePaul University College of Law (1998 and 1999)
  Created and taught: “Intellectual Property Strategies”, a “hands on” course during which law
  students worked to solve real life trade secret, right of publicity, copyright, trademark, and patent-
  related problems typically encountered by businesses while developing and commercializing new
  products and services.
• Instructor, Association of University Technology Managers Basic Licensing Course
• Instructor, AUTM Advanced Licensing Course
• Instructor, AUTM Software and Digital Media Course
• Instructor, International Intellectual Property Strategies (London)