Attorney profile
Robinson Intellectual Property Law, PLLC
The short version
Knoxville-based intellectual property firm handling patents, trademarks, and copyrights for individuals, companies, universities, and international clients.
Strengths
- Attorneys are described as responsive and thorough, with prompt replies, proactive deadline tracking, and timely renewal filings.
- Reviewers consistently praise clear, plain-language explanations that help non-lawyers understand complex intellectual property decisions.
- Cost-conscious approach: reviewers note awareness of billable hours, avoidance of unnecessary work, and options for managing risk and expense.
- Broad capability across patent and trademark prosecution, portfolio management, clearance, disputes, enforcement, and appellate work.
- Serves a wide client base, from individuals, startups, and nonprofits to established companies, universities, in-house counsel, and international applicants.
Considerations
- Robinson clients commend proactive updates and attention to deadlines rather than recurring communication problems.
- Feedback praises plain-language explanations for people without legal or technical backgrounds, without repeated complaints about confusing IP advice.
About Robinson Intellectual Property Law, PLLC
Robinson Intellectual Property Law, PLLC is an intellectual property firm at 9724 Kingston Pike #1102 in Knoxville, Tennessee, serving clients locally, nationally, and abroad. The practice centers on patents, trademarks, and copyrights, with additional attention to personal rights, entertainment, and name, image, and likeness matters. Its trademark service list spans clearance searching, application preparation, prosecution, licensing, portfolio management, infringement and disputes, and appellate work, alongside patent filing and prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The firm works with a broad client mix: individuals, startups and nonprofits, small to large companies, universities, and out-of-state and international applicants. Attorneys Roby Robinson and Bill Pannell are the names most frequently cited in public feedback, and the firm’s stated experience extends to intellectual property litigation in courts throughout the United States. A free consultation is offered through the website.
What clients repeatedly highlight is how the firm communicates. Reviewers describe attorneys who translate technical and legal concepts into terms non-lawyers can follow, present scenarios and probabilities rather than vague assurances, and define fee structures and next steps at the outset. Responsiveness also recurs, including prompt replies, proactive deadline tracking, and timely handling of renewals and maintenance filings. Cost awareness comes up often, with reviewers noting that the firm avoids unnecessary work and offers options for managing risk and expense.
Patent clients credit the team with persistence through office actions and initial rejections, including matters other counsel had considered unlikely to succeed. Trademark clients describe help with acquisition, ongoing maintenance, and resolving infringement problems affecting their businesses. Some reviewers are themselves attorneys or work alongside the firm professionally, and their comments emphasize technical depth and trustworthiness. International and out-of-state clients appear as well, including a UK-based applicant pursuing design patents.
Coverage also leans heavily toward patent and trademark work, with less public detail about the copyright, entertainment, NIL, and litigation services the firm lists.
The office is at 9724 Kingston Pike #1102, Knoxville, TN 37922. The listed telephone number is +1865-978-6480. The practice website is robinsoniplaw.com.
Robinson clients commend proactive updates and attention to deadlines rather than recurring communication problems. Feedback praises plain-language explanations for people without legal or technical backgrounds, without repeated complaints about confusing IP advice.
A professional referral describes more than five years of reliable work with the attorneys.
Recurring feedback
What clients consistently mention
- Reviewers frequently highlight responsiveness and communication, including prompt replies, proactive updates, and deadline management.
- Plain-language explanation of technical and legal concepts is a recurring point of praise, particularly from clients without legal or technical backgrounds.
- Cost awareness and billing transparency appear often, with reviewers noting defined fee structures and options for controlling expense.
- Patent and trademark outcomes are commonly cited, including successful prosecution through initial rejections, portfolio maintenance, and resolution of infringement issues.
- Trustworthiness and professional character are emphasized repeatedly, including by reviewers who are attorneys or work with the firm professionally.
All reviews
5 out of five stars based on 31 reviews.
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