Bradley K. Lortz is a founding partner of Canady + Lortz LLP.
Los Angelesbrad@canadylortz.com
Mr. Lortz has lived in Southern California since beginning an undergraduate engineering program at Loyola Marymount University in 1984. Prior to graduation, he began working at Hughes Space and Communications (HSC) where he spent his entire technical career in the design, development, and production of satellites. After completing his law degree at the University of Southern California, while maintaining a working relationship with Hughes as a contract engineer, Mr. Lortz was granted the opportunity to learn patent prosecution in the Hughes Corporate Legal Department.
With the subsequent sale of HSC to Boeing, Mr. Lortz continued his practical education in intellectual property and patent prosecution at a small Los Angeles firm where he acquired a solid grounding in the essential processes and strategies for securing and evaluating patent rights. Following this, he established his own practice as a partner with Patent Venture Group out of which Origin Law was founded and later merged with Karen Canady’s practice to become Canady + Lortz LLP.
Mr. Lortz has decades of intellectual property law experience emphasizing patent prosecution and seven years of spacecraft design and development experience on various government and commercial programs. His technical work spans aerospace mechanisms and structures, control and communication systems, semiconductor and MEMS devices, computer hardware, and software.
Education
- University of Southern California, JD
- Loyola Marymount University, BSME (Magna Cum Laude)
- University of California Los Angeles, MSME coursework completed, manufacturing emphasis
Admissions
- California Bar
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
Professional Associations
- Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
Representative Patents
- US 8,951,278 Post carrier for body piercing instrument
- US 8,928,036 High operating temperature barrier infrared detector with tailorable cutoff wavelength
- US 8,870,121 Actuating device
- US 8,804,309 Low temperature double-layer capacitors using asymmetric and spiro-type quaternary ammonium salts
- US 8,054,092 Corrosion detecting structural health sensor
- US 7,948,443 Structural feed aperture for space based phased array antennas
- US 7,931,237 Universal launch vehicle payload adapter
- US 7,922,124 Power optimized system for electric propulsion stationkeeping geosynchronous spacecraft
- US 7,871,042 Hydrogen fueled blended wing body ring tank
- US 7,836,765 Disc resonator integral inertial measurement unit
- US 7,773,205 High-resolution three-dimensional imaging radar
- US 7,568,352 Thermally coupled liquid oxygen and liquid methane storage vessel
- US 7,547,870 Precision spacecraft payload platforms
- US 7,581,443 Disc resonator gyroscopes
- US 7,199,344 Active camouflage using real-time spectral matching