Welcome to the personal website
of W. Thad Adams, III
Entertaining Excursions into Intellectual Property is a savory assortment of professional insights to the fascinating world of intellectual property protection.
The site's host, W. Thad Adams, III, of Charlotte, North Carolina, researched and compiled the wide variety of material you'll find on this website while establishing himself as one of the premier patent, trademark and copyright attorneys in the Southeastern United States over the past 35 years.
Adams and his team now head the Intellectual Property Division of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, which in 2011 acquired the thriving IP law firm Adams had built up while plying his trade internationally and in the United States.
Adams specializes solely in patent, trademark and copyright law, and the related areas of unfair competition and trade secret law.
With strategic legal counseling and tactical legal services ranging from mediation to aggressive court action, Adams has successfully protected intellectual property rights for a wide variety of clients — both large and small — including inventors, technology crafters, entrepreneurs and other intellectual property rights owners and developers.
Adams has served as United States patent counsel for a large number of foreign corporations, many of whom have facilities in the Charlotte area. Many clients particularly value the assistance Adams provides both foreign and domestic companies and individuals in planning and executing overall patent and trademark strategy.
Most of Adams' domestic clients are located in the Southeastern United States. They are involved in many diverse areas of business and include companies involved in the design and manufacture of textile machinery, hosiery and other apparel, filtration equipment, medical equipment and products, child safety products, power transmission equipment, jet engines, electronic controls, microprocessor- controlled audio and video tape winding and loading equipment, flooring products and aircraft passenger seats.
Adams also represents advertising and public relations agencies, record producers, computer programming specialists, a nationwide photographic film processor, trucking companies, a large fiberglass processor, a national restaurant chain, and the owners of an NBA professional basketball team.
Overall, approximately 50% of Adams' practice has involved international issues. For this reason, he has developed very close relations with the international community in Charlotte, and therefore has access to information and services which are not normally available to those without such a large concentration of business in the international intellectual property area.
Reported cases, litigation summaries and similar information can be accessed under the Adams Vitae menu above. Plus, published opinions in litigation matters handled by Adams are available upon request. Finally, Adams writes, edits and publishes a unique newsletter, Asymptote Review, which is available upon request without charge to clients and associates. The Patently Different section of this website includes digital editions of all previously published editions of Asymptote Review.
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All the information provided on this web site is of a general nature, and is not intended to address individual circumstances or the needs of any particular person or entity. This information is provided with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. It is not intended to render legal or other professional services. No one should act upon such information without appropriate advice and a thorough examination of the facts in a particular situation. Thad Adams assumes no liability for reliance on the information contained on this web site and reserves the right to make any change to the content without prior notice. Nothing on this website is intended to be legal advice, and is not legal advice. Nor is this website connected in any way with Adams´ employer, the law firm of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP.