Paul W. Koda

As a member of the Center for Law and Corporate Affairs of Growth Strategies, Inc., Paul Koda uses his specialty in the field of intellectual property to assist corporate and nonprofit clients with their copyright, trademark and patent related legal needs. Mr. Koda handles primarily Internet and ecommerce related Intellectual Property legal matters and comes to Growth Strategies with a strong background in engineering.

In addition to his consulting position with GSI, Mr. Koda is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Burk & Koda, P.L.L.C. where he serves clients in various areas of intellectual property law. He is a registered patent attorney and is licensed to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Federal Trademark Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association and Founder and Chairman of the Intellectual Property Section of the Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. Koda held positions as an engineer and application software designer. In 1986, Mr. Koda graduated from the rigorous Engineering Systems Development program created by Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corporation. While at EDS, he designed software used by General Motors technicians to diagnose vehicle sensor faults. In addition, he was chief architect of the Custom Dynamic Display software used by Saturn technicians to diagnose drive-ability symptoms in Saturn vehicles.

Mr. Koda also employed his engineering and computer skills in the telecommunications industry where he designed and implemented portions of the telemanagement software product produced for the U.S. Air Force by American Computer and Electronics Corporation. He was a member of the team that grew by more than one hundred technicians and engineers that eventually went public as ACE*COMM Corporation.

Mr. Koda also has experience in designing modeling software used to detect the corrosive properties of boiler water present in coal-fired power plants, the predictive aspects of which allowed utilities to plan effectively for plant maintenance and disaster recovery. And, he developed software used to evaluate the plasticity of polymer-based consumer products, which proved to be an effective tool for investigating the potential consumer uses for polypropylene and polyethylene.

Paul Koda received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1985 from North Carolina State University. In 1997, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University Law School where he concentrated in intellectual property legal issues and received honors in trial advocacy.

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