In Fort Wayne and throughout Central and Northeast Indiana, talented individuals and great companies are shaping the future through their creativity and innovation!

Gerald W. Askew, Patent and Trademark Attorney and owner of Askew Intellectual Property, LLC, wants to help you leverage your creative talents and the inventiveness of your employees. Therefore, it is the vision of this law firm to provide Intellectual Property operations counseling and raise your company’s awareness of Intellectual Property opportunities and pitfalls, as well as to provide patent, trademark, and copyright filing, prosecution, and opinions.

Askew Intellectual Property, LLC, was founded with the Intellectual Property needs of small and medium sized businesses in mind. Nevertheless, the firm’s value-added Intellectual Property services are suitable to the needs of individuals and large companies as well.

“Congress shall have the power..... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.......” U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 8.

“If I do not sink under the weight of this deep conviction it is because I find some support in a consciousness of the purposes and a confidence in the principles which I bring with me into this arduous service....... to promote by authorized means improvements friendly to agriculture, to manufactures, and to external as well as internal commerce; to favor in like manner the advancement of science and the diffusion of information as the best aliment to true liberty.......” James Madison, First Inaugural Address, March 4th, 1809.