Intellectual Property Law
Your Ideas Are Worth Protecting.
Lex Tecnica and Intellectual Property
Your intellectual property is often your most valuable business asset. Lex Tecnica's Intellectual Property division helps entrepreneurs, creators, and companies identify, protect, and monetize what they have built. From trademark registration to licensing negotiations to IP litigation, we treat your ideas with the same seriousness you do and fight to make sure no one else profits from your work without permission.
Trademark registration and portfolio management
Copyright protection and registration
Patent strategy and coordination with patent counsel
Trade secret protection and NDA drafting
IP licensing agreements and royalty structures
Brand protection and cease-and-desist enforcement
IP audits for mergers, acquisitions, and investment rounds
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Our Intellectual Property Team
Managing Partner
Sam Castor, Esq.
Sam Castor is the founder of Lex Tecnica and a seasoned executive attorney with over 15 years in the technology sector. He has negotiated billions of dollars in intellectual property and infrastructure transactions, resolved hundreds of millions in litigation, and served in senior legal roles at Switch, where he rose to Executive Vice President of Policy and Deputy General Counsel. A professor of negotiation and drafting at UNLV's Boyd School of Law and holder of an LLM in Cybersecurity from Texas A&M, Sam brings national firm expertise with the agility and loyalty of in-house counsel.
Senior Attorney
F. Christopher Austin, Esq.
F. Christopher Austin is a highly experienced commercial litigator and intellectual property attorney with over 30 years of trial experience. He has dedicated his career to helping businesses and individuals defend and protect their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and brings national BigLaw depth to every IP matter at Lex Tecnica.
Associate Attorney
Ashlyn Hauber, Esq.
Ashlyn Hauber is a strategic and future-focused IP attorney who is fluent in both English and Spanish. Her practice covers trademark registration and enforcement, copyright matters, and IP licensing, with a relational approach that puts client relationships at the center of every engagement. She has a background in special education advocacy as well, lending her multifaceted perspective to complex matters.
Paralegal
Brianna Show
Brianna Show is a litigation paralegal with prior experience at Weide & Miller (an IP and tech firm) and Clark County. She holds a degree from UNLV and brings sharp administrative acumen and document management expertise to litigation and IP matters.
Paralegal
Kathrine von Arx
Kathrine von Arx is a highly organized and adaptable paralegal supporting attorneys across real estate, business, IP, and estate planning matters. Her ability to manage complex file loads and shifting priorities makes her an essential resource across multiple Lex Tecnica practice areas.