INDIANO & VAUGHAN, LLP

Attorneys in Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Computer, Licensing, Internet,

and Related Intellectual Property Matters

One North Pennsylvania Street
Suite 1300
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-822-0033
Fax: 317-822-0055

Welcome to IPLawIndiana.com,

the Website for

Vic Indiano and Steve Vaughan

Our goals are to provide our respective clients with counseling, advice and other legal services that help them maximize the value of their intellectual property, which in turn increases their strength and profitability. Our jobs are to provide the Intellectual Property related legal services and advice that makes this happen.

Our organization is small for a reason. The two of us believe that our respective clients can be better and more cost-effectively served in a less structured, lower overhead environment that gives each of us the flexibility to creatively render legal services designed to enhance our clients’ profitability.

If you are a current client or friend, we thank you for your friendship, support and the business that you have given to us over time, for it has been invaluable, both personally and professionally. If you are interested in becoming a client, please call us, as we look forward to having the opportunity to work with you.

Attorney Biographies

E. Victor Indiano

E-mail to: Vic@IPLawIndiana.com (caution: see the note * below)

Vic Indiano is a registered patent attorney. Vic received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Economics from Indiana University (1977), and his Juris Doctor from Indiana University at Indianapolis (1982), and did graduate level studies in Environmental Science. He has been registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1981, and has been engaged in private practice in the areas of patent, trademark, and copyright law since 1982. Vic has been the author of numerous publications and has spoken to and/or written seminar materials for a wide variety of groups including the Indianapolis Business Journal, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the Indiana Institute for New Business Ventures, Inventure, the Indiana Entrepreneurship Academy, the Indiana Small Business Development Conference, the Indiana Inventor's Association; the National Business Institute, and the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Vic was an adjunct professor of business law at I.U.P.U.I. from 1988 through 1991. His civic and business interests include former membership on the Boards of Directors of Secondary Marketing Company, Inc., and Education Debt Services, Inc. (both of which were USA Group USA GROUP subsidiaries), The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis, Inc. (formerly its Secretary and member of the Executive Committee) and the Brebeuf Alumni Association.

Stephen L. Vaughan

E-mail to: Steve@IPLawIndiana.com (caution: see the note * below)

Steve Vaughan is a registered patent attorney. He received his B.S. degree in Engineering from Purdue, and received his J.D. from Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis. He has been practicing law for 16 years, and brings a wealth of litigation experience to the practice. Steve has litigated cases in Indiana and surrounding states, including patent infringement cases, and has tried cases to verdict in both state and federal courts. He also has several successful appeals to his credit.

Before his legal career, Steve was an engineer with Allison Gas Turbine, then a division of General Motors Corporation. In his first position at Allison as Product Reliability Engineer, Steve provided engineering support for the production of gas turbine engines used in light helicopters such as the Bell Jet Ranger. He then became a Product Safety Engineer where his duties included helicopter accident investigation and aircraft accident litigation support.

Steve also presently serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Intellectual Property Section of the Indiana State Bar Association.

Reported Decisions:

Rheem Manufacturing Co. v. Phelps Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc., 746 N.E.2d 941 (Ind. 2001); Rheem Manufacturing Co. v. Phelps Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc., 714 N.E.2d 1218 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999); Betaco, Inc. v. The Cessna Aircraft Company (7th Cir. 1996); Betaco, Inc. v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 32 F.3d 1126 (7th Cir. 1994).

Representative Technologies

Between us the technology areas in which we have been involved include: Foodstuff processing technology, computer software, carbon fiber bicycle components; construction technology, electro-chemical analytical detectors, electric guitar components, fiber-optic laser transmission systems, refrigeration systems, production testing fixtures, fuel systems, automotive components, biomedical products, angioplasty catheters, pharmaceuticals, blood pressure monitors, forest products machinery, digital printing technologies; hospital equipment, sporting goods equipment, paper web converting machinery, podiatric devices, anesthesia equipment, industrial testing equipment, compact disc manufacturing technologies, automotive assembly equipment, stone crushing equipment, pharmaceutical packaging technology, industrial waste treatment technology, cereal packaging equipment, lactose related agricultural chemistry, blood separation chemistry, blood cholesterol assays, elegiac acid based blood test reagents, gelatin film chemistry, analgesic micro-encapsulation technology, epoxy resin technology for use in flooring compounds and artificial fingernails, coal processing technology, and environmental chemistry.

Representative Clients

Between us our present and/or former clients include: United Student Aid Funds, Inc.; Therapy Care Resources, Inc; Techbase, Pty. (Melbourne, Australia); Atlantic Coast Software, Inc (Devon, England); The Bentcil Company; Applied Laboratories, Inc.; Pulse Metric, Inc. (San Diego, California); Blairex Laboratories; Micronix, Inc.; Applied Composites, Inc.; Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc.; Maniac Music, Inc.; Allied/OSI Labs, Inc.; Auralex Acoustics, Inc; Bo-Reddy Outdoor Products, LLC; Langham Transport, Inc.; Medical Developments, Ltd.; Person/Wolensky Technologies, Inc. (Port Jefferson Station, NY); U.S. Centrifuge, Inc.; PermaCase, Inc.; Compositech, Inc.; Monitrol, Inc.; Wilmarc, Inc.; King Systems Corporation; Cinram, Inc.; Wabash Valley Manufacturing, Inc; Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc.; Quality Dining, Inc.

* PLEASE NOTE

This web site is designed to provide information of general interest to the public. It is not intended to offer legal advice about specific situations or problems, and should not be taken as an indication of future results. Moreover, this website is not intended to create an attorney-client relationship, and sending e-mail to any of the attorneys listed will not do so. Accordingly, if you are not currently a client, your e-mail will not be privileged and may be disclosed to other persons.