Makoui Law

About Makoui Law

Makoui Law is a patent and trademark prosecution firm based in Los Angeles, with an office in Encino and additional locations in Silicon Valley, Orange County, and the San Fernando Valley. The practice serves the Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Orange County areas as well as clients nationally and internationally, working with individual inventors, startups, mid-size companies, and Fortune 500 corporations.

The firm’s core work is patent filing and prosecution. Engagements typically begin with a review of the client’s invention disclosure and the development of a filing strategy for U.S. and international applications; once the contents are agreed, the team drafts and files the application in the U.S. and in any additional jurisdictions decided on together. After filing, the firm handles communications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including office action responses and the required documents and disclosures needed to move an application toward allowance, and prepares responses to foreign office actions through its international associates. Where agreement with a patent examiner cannot be reached, the team prepares and files appeal briefs and reply briefs before the USPTO, and coordinates equivalent appeals in other jurisdictions.

Trademark services cover brand strategy, clearance searches, application filing, prosecution, and portfolio management. The firm describes technical experience across artificial intelligence, audio-visual technology, clean energy, computer software and hardware, cloud computing, smartphone applications, data encryption, electronics, the Internet of Things, mechanical engineering and machinery, medical devices, and semiconductors. Its stated industry reach extends from advertising, consumer products, construction, cosmetics, and education through entertainment and media, food and restaurant services, medical and veterinary services, pharmaceuticals, professional services, science and technology, and telecommunications.

The team is presented as a boutique prosecution practice with decades of combined experience and includes Ali Makoui, Hamid R. Moussavian, Andrew Pak, and K.C. Kobari. Reviews, though few in number, consistently describe the firm as professional, responsive, and thorough, with one client crediting the team with identifying a prior attorney’s abandonment of an application and refiling it successfully. Reviewers also single out technical depth and what they describe as reasonable charges for prosecution work.

Makoui clients commend honest, responsive communication rather than recurring disputes about attorney access. Written accounts describe thorough analysis of complicated IP matters, without repeated complaints about confusing advice or incomplete follow-through.