Alex Brown, J.D. Esq.

Alex Brown is a Wake County native and alumni of both North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Physics and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a J.D. focusing on patent and intellectual property (IP) law.  He has passed the North Carolina Bar Exam and is registered to practice before the USPTO.  

Alex founded his law firm in 2021.  Since then, he has continuously operated as a sole practitioner.  Alex focuses on consulting small businesses and inventors on a wide range of IP and related contractual matters.  Alex offers to file patent applications, copyright registrations, and trademark registrations for his clients.  He works regularly with non-profit organizations, which together make up the majority of the work done by his firm.  Alex offers pro-bono work or very large discounts to organizations working towards Righteous and/or Just causes.  Alex is committed to providing clear guidance and exceptional legal support to ensure your ideas are firmly and efficiently safeguarded. 

As a day job separate from his law firm, Alex works for the NCSU Office of Research Commercialization to manage a portion of NCSU’s vast intellectual property portfolio.  Alex evaluates hundreds of invention disclosures on a continuous basis.  He determines the most appropriate protection strategies and handles all manners of licensing/royalty matters on behalf of the University.  The IP Alex manages emerged from R&D cumulatively funded by hundreds of millions of dollars. He also assists NCSU in any related matter he can, such as CDAs, sponsored research funding agreements, and educational lecturing.  Alex has received a formal Letter of Gratitude from the USPTO and the Pride of the Wolfpack Award from NCSU for his work with the university. 

In his personal time, Alex likes fishing with his dad, long distance backpacking with his brother and friends, cooking family meals with his mom, and watching futurama with his wonderful girlfriend.