Nicholas D. Rouse

Oklahoma

Nicholas D. Rouse provides a broad range of patent counseling to clients ranging from individual inventors to large multinational manufacturing companies. His practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management, validity and infringement opinions, evaluations of new designs, and licensing strategy.

Nick develops strategies that meet the business goals of clients, including advising them on how to build patent portfolios through preparing and prosecuting patents, developing intellectual property positions that take into account competitors’ intellectual property, and advising on acquisitions or licensing of technology. Although Nick has experience with a wide array of technologies, his practice has involved primarily subject matter in the mechanical and electro-mechanical arts. More specifically, he has assisted clients in the areas of petroleum exploration and production, construction equipment and processes, sporting goods, automotive systems, medical devices, safety products, packaging materials, and farming and ranching equipment.

Nick’s practice also encompasses all aspects of trademark planning and management including clearance searches and opinions, trademark prosecution, licensing, and policing and enforcement of trademark rights.

In its inaugural coverage of intellectual property law in Oklahoma, the highly regarded Chambers USA ranked Nick in the top band of leading practitioners, and he has been top-ranked continuously since then. He was recently selected by attorney peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024  for Patent Law, Technology Law, Trade Secrets Law, and Trademark Law and named the 2022 Oklahoma City Lawyer of the Year for Patent Law. He was also named the 2018 Oklahoma City Lawyer of the Year for Trademark Law by Best Lawyers. In 2023, Managing Intellectual Property again ranked Nick as an IP Star for Patents and for Trademarks.

Nicholas D. Rouse earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma School of Law, following his completion of a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Nick is admitted to practice before the Oklahoma State Bar and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and he is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, enabling him to represent clients across a broad range of intellectual property and related matters at both the state and federal levels.