Exhibit A
Patent Attorneys work in Columbia SC
Columbia is a small market for patent work. The firms that do it sit around the Main Street legal cluster downtown and out toward the university and research corridor, and a handful of sole practitioners work from home offices across Richland and Lexington counties. Search volume for patent terms here is modest, so the paid search on it is cheap and thin, and few firms bid on it at all. The demand that exists comes from inventors connected to the University of South Carolina, from small manufacturers and from engineers starting companies. Most of it is owner led practices rather than franchises. The searches are specific: patent application, provisional patent, trademark and patent, patent attorney near me.
