Braun IP Law, LLC combines future-forward legal acumen with a steadfast dedication to carefully tailored legal strategies for all of our clients. We are a female-founded law firm that caters to businesses and budgets of all sizes. Our clients are individual artists, inventors, and start-up companies, as well as multi-national corporations. Our small size and singular focus ensures that each client is given the time and attention required for their respective needs. We use an integrated approach to keep competitors and infringers from profiting off our clients’ intangible assets. We help innovators safeguard the profitability of their creations through procuring and enforcing intellectual property rights. We offer full-spectrum IP services from patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, to litigation, as well as other IP and business services. Through our portfolio management system and our global network of foreign agents, we help clients manage and protect their IP assets and portfolios worldwide. Regardless of your industry or company size, we are ready and excited to help you protect your market advantage with our Lightning in a Bottle SM legal services.
MEET THE TEAM
JEANETTE M. BRAUN, FOUNDER
Bio
Jeanette M. Braun is the founder of Braun IP Law, LLC, a second-generation patent practitioner, and first-generation attorney. She started working in the intellectual property industry when she was 13 years old and learned the business from her mom, Kajane McManus, who was a solo patent practitioner. Prosecuting patents is coded into her DNA. She practices in nearly all technology fields: from mechanical to chemical to computer science to aeronautics. She has written patents for innovations in fashion to deep space propulsion using antimatter. She also assisted with prosecuting the first tattoo that was ever registered as a trademark. Jeanette graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (f/k/a The John Marshall Law School) and served as the Vice President of the Intellectual Property Law Society. She graded on to the Review of Intellectual Property Law, was a Staff Editor, and was published in Issues 2 and 4 of 2018. She received multiple scholarships, was a member of the legal honors society Phi Delta Phi, and was awarded the Cali Award of Excellence multiple times. Prior to law school, Jeanette graduated cum laude with Chemistry Department Distinction from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.S. in Chemistry and a Minor in Mathematics. She worked full time while obtaining both her undergraduate and law degrees.
Education
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law – J.D., magna cum laude
University of Illinois Chicago – B.S. in Chemistry, cum laude with distinction
Bar Admissions
Illinois
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Community and Professional Involvement
Chicago Bar Association, Member
Diversity Scholarship Foundation, NFP, Mentor
DuPage County Bar Association, Vice Chair of Intellectual Property
Illinois Bar Association, Member
Illinois Paralegal Association, Presenter
Publications and Presentations
Jeanette Braun, A Tale of Two Pioneers: Trademarking a Tattoo, 18 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 400 (2019)
Jeanette Braun, The Safe Harbor of 35 U.S.C. § 121: Judicial Deviation from Congressional Intent Is Not Necessary to Uphold 35 U.S.C. § 101, 18 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 205 (2018)
Stephanie Nikitenko, Solo Practitioners’ Perspectives: Jeanette M. Braun, Chicago Bar Association @the Bar (October 2020)
Start Inspired Podcast: Ep 39, “How To Protect Your Rights with Braun IP Law, LLC”
“An In-Depth Look at The Five Intellectual Property Rights Through The Movie Mean Girls,” Presenter, Illinois Paralegal Association, May 05, 2020 Wealth Management & Protection Of A Business’s Most Valuable Assets, Moderator, DuPage County Bar Association, September 07, 2021
Trademark Basics-Thoughts For Selecting, Clearing, And Protecting Branding, Moderator, DuPage County Bar Association, November 05, 2021
“Match Not Made in Heaven: When Intellectual Property Law Meets Employment Law,” Presenter, Illinois Paralegal Association, November 08, 2021