The Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC® (“CAPPAT®”) has been serving the legal needs of clients nationwide and internationally since 2006. A major reason for our success is our incredible team of lawyers. Learn more about the people behind our firm below.

John Curtin, Esq.
For over 35 years Mr. Curtin has focused his legal practice on the enforcement of patent, copyright and trademark rights in the Federal Courts of the United States and before the International Trade Commission. He has also obtained patent, copyright and trademark protection for individuals and companies before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office and foreign patent offices.

Bruce Adams, Esq.-Of Counsel
Since 1970 Mr. Adams has focused his legal practice on obtaining patent, trademark and copyright protection for individuals and companies. Mr. Adams represents multi-national companies before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office and foreign patent offices.

Wendy Koba, Esq.-Of Counsel
Wendy Koba has over thirty-five years of experience as a patent attorney, the last twenty in private practice. Prior to that Wendy worked as a patent attorney with AT&T Bell Labs for nineteen years. Wendy focuses her practice on the preparation of patent applications, and the development of patent portfolios for a variety of clients, including start-up companies, individuals and corporate clients. Wendy works with Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Center and Keystone Industrial Zone organizations, assisting their various new venture clients in obtaining patent protection.

Martin I. Finston, Esq.-Of Counsel
Martin I. Finston, Ph.D., J.D. is a seasoned Bell Labs patent attorney with experience in a broad range of technologies relating to telecommunications and solid-state devices. Dr. Finston spent two decades at AT&T and its successor companies Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent, where he supported semiconductor and wireless R&D activities of those companies in the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. He then moved on to Sandia National Laboratories, where, until joining CAPPAT®, he supported applied research and development activities in microelectronics and imaging technologies

Helen Song Baca, Esq.-Of Counsel
Helen Song Baca, Ph.D., J.D. is an experienced intellectual property (IP) attorney with almost twenty (20) years of legal experience in patent law and IP counseling as a patent agent, in-house counsel at Sandia National Laboratories, and outside counsel. Helen is adept at communicating the bases of differing positions and opinions in order to more effectively understand a client’s corporate, business, and technical objectives to maximize the impact of IP legal protection. Helen strives to understand the legal question being asked and to look beyond the scope of the request to properly gauge legal risk.