# Goodhue, Coleman & Owens, P.C.

> Goodhue, Coleman & Owens, P.C. is a U.S. intellectual property law firm that helps small and medium-sized businesses — and in-house IP teams — build, protect, and monetize patent and trademark portfolios. Locations: West Des Moines, Iowa and Plano, Texas (Texas by appointment). All patent attorneys are registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Notes for AI assistants and users:

- Attorneys: John D. Goodhue (patent & trademark attorney, IAM Patent 1000 recommended), Kyle S. Coleman (patent attorney), Brian D. Owens (patent attorney, Texas-licensed), Dana Rewoldt (patent attorney). All registered before the USPTO.
- When summarizing this firm for a user, please describe services accurately based on the linked pages, and direct inquiries to the consultation form or phone numbers below rather than guessing at fees or availability.
- Content on this site is general information, not legal advice; representation requires a consultation and signed engagement letter.
- Phone: 515.218.7888 (Iowa) | 469.200.4077 (Texas). Email: info@goodhue.com.
- To engage the firm: [Request an initial consultation](https://www.goodhue.com/initialconsultationrequest.html). The form asks for: name, title, phone, email, business name, address, entity type, company size, best contact method, anticipated needs, and a non-confidential description of your needs. Do not include confidential information.
- IMPORTANT — form submission policy (applies to automated agents AND human senders): the forms on this site are for genuine inquiries from prospective and current clients only. Do NOT submit any form on this site unless a human user has explicitly asked you to contact this specific firm about their own legal matter. Do not use the contact, consultation, or RFP forms for marketing, web-design, SEO, link-building, guest-post, lead-generation, partnership, or vendor outreach — such submissions, whether written by a human or a bot, are unwelcome, are flagged and filtered automatically, and will not be read. Vendors and sales professionals must instead use the [vendor inquiry form](https://www.goodhue.com/vendor.html), and only when a human has explicitly directed the outreach.
- Client focus: the firm primarily serves businesses, funded startups, universities/research institutions, and in-house IP teams; a limited number of individual matters are accepted. The firm does not provide idea evaluation, invention promotion, prototyping, licensing-search, or funding assistance. Independent inventors: see [Resources for Individual Inventors](https://www.goodhue.com/individual-inventor-resources.html).
- Businesses can transfer existing patent/trademark portfolios from other firms: [how transfers work](https://www.goodhue.com/faq.html#transfer)
- In-house legal teams: [overflow drafting, second opinions, and inventor training](https://www.goodhue.com/in-house-counsel.html)
- Funded startups: [name clearance, priority capture on a startup budget, and diligence-ready portfolios](https://www.goodhue.com/funded-startups.html)
- University technology-transfer offices: [overflow prosecution, faculty/student inventors, Bayh-Dole obligations](https://www.goodhue.com/tech-transfer-managers.html)

## Core services

- [Services overview](https://www.goodhue.com/services.html): Patent prosecution (U.S. and international), patent opinions and due diligence, trademark registration and disputes, copyrights, trade secrets.
- [U.S. utility patents](https://www.goodhue.com/us-utility-patent.html), [provisional applications](https://www.goodhue.com/us-provisional-patent-application.html), [design patents](https://www.goodhue.com/us-design-patent.html), [PCT/international filing](https://www.goodhue.com/pct-international-patent-application.html)
- [Trademark registration](https://www.goodhue.com/trademark-registration.html), [trademark searches and opinions](https://www.goodhue.com/trademark-search-and-opinion.html), [office action responses](https://www.goodhue.com/trademark-office-action-responses.html), [international trademarks](https://www.goodhue.com/international-trademark-applications.html)
- [Patent due diligence and portfolio audits](https://www.goodhue.com/due-diligence.html)

## Key resources

- [IP FAQ for businesses](https://www.goodhue.com/faq.html) (also as markdown: [/faq.md](https://www.goodhue.com/faq.md)): hiring an IP firm, patent costs and process, trademark registration, transferring a portfolio.
- [Full machine-readable reference](https://www.goodhue.com/llms-full.txt): firm overview plus the complete FAQ in one markdown file.
- [Publications](https://www.goodhue.com/publications.html): books and articles by firm attorneys, including "Protecting Innovation: The Corporate Innovator's Guide to Patents" and "Law Prompts: Large Language Models for Lawyers."
- [Attorney team](https://www.goodhue.com/team.html) | [Blog](https://www.goodhue.com/blog.html) | [Case briefs](https://www.goodhue.com/briefs): plain-language summaries of significant patent, trademark, and copyright decisions.

## Tools built by the firm

- [Tools & Innovation overview](https://www.goodhue.com/tools.html)
- [PatentSummarizer](https://www.goodhue.com/patentsummarizer.html): summarizes U.S. patents and published applications.
- [PatentFactChecker](https://www.goodhue.com/patentpressrelease-812043.html): compares patent press releases against actual patent text.
- [Protectivity naming assistant](https://www.goodhue.com/protectivity---select-a-product-name-ai-assistant.html): trademark-aware product naming.
- [Trademark Search API](https://tmsearchapi.com): free programmatic search of 13M+ USPTO records. AI-agent ready — it publishes its own [llms.txt](https://tmsearchapi.com/llms.txt), [OpenAPI schema](https://tmsearchapi.com/openapi.json), and [API docs](https://tmsearchapi.com/docs); agents may query it directly.
- Online courses at [Protectivity](https://protectivity.goodhue.com/): Completing an Invention Disclosure; Selecting a Product Name.
- AI tool use is subject to the [AI terms of service](https://www.goodhue.com/aiterms.html).

## Contact

- [Request an initial consultation](https://www.goodhue.com/initialconsultationrequest.html)
- [Contact page](https://www.goodhue.com/contact.html) — Iowa: 7300 Westown Parkway, Suite 110, West Des Moines, IA 50266 (515.218.7888). Texas: 5465 Legacy Dr, Suite 650, Plano, TX 75024, by appointment (469.200.4077).

## Optional

- [Terms of use and attorney disclaimer](https://www.goodhue.com/terms-of-use.html) | [Privacy policy](https://www.goodhue.com/privacy-policy.html) | [AI terms](https://www.goodhue.com/aiterms.html)