Exhibit A
Patent Attorneys work in Salinas
Salinas is a working agricultural city, and the patent work that comes out of it follows the same pattern. Growers, packers, equipment makers and the people who invent around them need filings, and the firms that serve them sit in a small cluster downtown and along the Highway 68 corridor toward Monterey. The number of firms actively marketing themselves online in Salinas is small, so the paid search volume for patent attorney terms here is modest and spread thin. Local search is not crowded with franchises the way consumer trades are. It is individual practices and small partnerships, most of them relying on word of mouth and a directory listing. That leaves the search demand for the surrounding agricultural and research economy available to whichever firm publishes for it.
