Biographies

Justin Call
Founder of Mammoth Law Group

If I were still at a big, international, traditional, law firm, my biography would look like this: "Justin Call is an associate with Big International Law Firm's Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on the corporate aspects of IP law."

For those corporate intellectual property attorneys reading this, it may make a lot of sense, but what does it mean for clients?

Well, it used to be that your physical assets like your factory or product were considered the most valuable pieces of your companies. But no longer. Instead, it's that idea up in your head on how to build a better or new ________[fill in the blank]; that logo and name you have used to market a successful product; your technique for selling and distributing products through your own XML; and that new software product that you want to sell to big corporate clients. These are all hugely valuable but (i) how do you protect them so no one takes these ideas, because unlike that factory you can't lock them up at night and (ii) how do make money with these ideas?

Using trademark, copyright, patent, corporate and contract law, I help you protect and sell these ideas, products and business ventures.

Life Before Mammoth

Ropes & Gray, LLP

What is it? Ropes is an international law firm based in Boston, MA, and has a consistently ranked top intellectual property practices

What did you do there? Basically, everything that I do now at Mammoth Law Group (except at 125% higher cost).

What does this mean for Mammoth clients? As with my colleagues, we at Mammoth can offer top international law firm expertise but at a radically reduced cost and with predictable cost (see our fixed fee and subscription services). Fast Mammoth Informatics, Inc.

What is it? FMI is a provider of "bio/cheminformatics" tools to small biotech and pharmaceutical firms. OK, what is it (part two)? FMI offers for free software tools that aid drug discovery researchers at small biotech and pharmaceutical companies but we charge for service and support. This enables small biotech and pharmaceutical companies to do everything the big pharmaceutical companies do but at a fraction of the cost.

What did you do there? I founded and ran the company as its CEO (winning a business plan competition along the way) but now I am a director of the company. What does this mean for Mammoth clients? I can do more than sympathize with my small-company clients, because I understand the business issues facing small and startup businesses, like, "hey, I want a good lawyer but I can't afford $500 to $1000 per hour!"

University at Buffalo
"STOR" office (Technology Transfer Office)

What is it? A technology transfer office takes technology developed at a university and either launches a start-up company to commercialize the technology or sells the technology to existing company.

What did you do there? I worked on licensing transactions; I wrote business plans; managed teams to launch a technology; wrote grant proposals for NYSTAR and SBIR funding; and pretty much did whatever I could to get a technology out into the market. What does this mean for Mammoth clients? Along with FMI, I understand the ins and outs of marketing, licensing, executing a business plan and simply how to "get'r done."