Exhibit A
Patent Attorneys work in Santa Clara
Santa Clara sits in the middle of the South Bay patent corridor, with the county seat in San Jose next door and a dense run of technology employers and startups across the valley. That means a steady stream of inventors, engineers and founders looking for patent help, and a crowded field of firms and solo practitioners competing for the same searches. Paid search in this trade in Santa Clara is expensive because a single patent client can be worth a lot, so firms bid hard on the obvious terms. The market is a mix of established boutique IP firms and owner operators who left larger practices to work for themselves. The demand is there all year, and the searches are specific: people look for patent prosecution, provisional applications, freedom to operate and IP strategy, often with Santa Clara or South Bay attached.
