Ian works with business leaders to tackle the legal challenges that arise in founding, funding, and growing their companies. He leverages his broad background and experience across technology, business, and law to understand client needs and provide holistic solutions.
Intellectual Property
Ian advises clients in a variety of industries on management, growth, commercialization, and protection of their intellectual property assets. Clients of all sizes rely on Ian to help them develop a cohesive intellectual property strategy that serves their unique business objectives and fits within their business models.
Ian helps clients understand their intellectual property assets and helps protect them by securing patents, trademarks, and copyright registrations where appropriate, as well as developing best practices to protect trade secrets and proprietary knowledge. He works with clients to navigate the competitive landscape by preparing non-infringement and freedom to operate opinions.
Beyond securing protection for these rights, Ian assists from negotiation to closing on a variety of intellectual property transactions including acquisitions, sales, and licenses. Ian also has substantial experience enforcing clients’ intellectual property assets through litigation and other dispute mechanisms.
Representative Experience:
- Prepare and prosecute patents in a number of fields with a focus on the mechanical arts.
- Advise clients on a selection of trademarks, perform clearance searches, prepare and prosecute trademark registrations, and represent client interests before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
- Manage global trademark portfolios for clients including an international luxury travel brand, a health non-profit, a compliance software-as-a-service provider, a consumer vitamin and supplement manufacturer, and a community-focused startup.
- Counsel to multiple software developers and SaaS providers regarding inbound and outbound software licensing agreements.
- Represented trademark registrant in federal court against infringing streaming media producer.
Business and Transactional
Ian advises businesses through all stages of the business lifecycle. He assists clients with entity selection, business structuring, foundational documents, ongoing governance, and relations between ownership, management, and employees. Ian leads clients through funding transactions including common and preferred equity issuances, private placements, and debt financing. Ian also has experience representing clients in a variety of business transactions including mergers and acquisitions on both the buyer and seller sides.
As a former entrepreneur, Ian understands the balance of relationships that make a successful business run, and works with clients to provide appropriate legal solutions to reflect various stakeholder interests. In addition to counseling clients on internal matters, Ian advises on a wide variety of commercial agreements between clients and third parties. He also assists Losey’s litigation team in complex corporate and commercial disputes with his subject matter expertise.
Representative Experience:
- Counsel to multiple venture capital and private equity funds including fund formation and Regulation D private placements.
- Sell-side representation including environmental and pharmaceutical testing businesses acquired by international conglomerate for $20 million, environmental testing business acquired for $7 million, and digital marketing agency acquired by nationwide marketing firm for $5.5 million.
- Buy-side representation including insurance brokerage’s serial acquisition of agencies, computer vision software provider’s stock-for-stock strategic acquisition of hardware manufacturer, and $2.3 million SBA-funded acquisition of assets of regional roofing company and associated real estate.
- Counsel to numerous angel investors and companies in connection with private company investments including watercraft manufacturer’s receipt of a $2 million private equity investment and a private fund’s $3 million investment in magnet technology company.
- Represent founders and owners in disputes related to closely-held businesses.
Recognition
Ian was selected as one of six Fellows in the 2025-2027 class of the Florida Bar Business Law Section Fellows program.
Ian’s success across diverse practices has led to his being recognized as a SuperLawyers Rising Star in Intellectual Property Law and Business & Corporate Law, and a Best Lawyers Ones to Watch in Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, and Commercial Litigation.
Education and Professional Background
Ian earned his JD magna cum laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he was a member of the Journal of Technology Law and Policy, president of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Association, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While there, he received CALI awards for the highest course grade in Business Enterprises, Patent Law, Evidence, and Florida Constitutional Law. During law school, Ian worked for a boutique California-based law firm. Prior to law school, Ian founded and led several startups focused on social influence and crowdfunding. Ian holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a concentration in Acoustic Engineering from Purdue University.
Ian is admitted to practice in the State of Florida, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
