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Gerard Reinhard is the Founder and Principal of Reinhardt Ip and a Leader in the Field of Intellectual Property Law:

A world-class Intellectual Property Attorney with over 25 years of legal experience in commercial matters:

  • Litigated complex patent cases with New York Intellectual Property boutique (Morgan & Finnegan)
  • In-house Senior Patent Counsel with branded pharmaceuticals companies (Merck and Schering-Plough)
  • Founder and lead attorney at Reinhardt IP since 2012

Licensed to practice law in:

  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
  • Florida
  • New York
  • Texas
  • District of Colombia

15 years of engineering experience with Raytheon and Pratt & Whitney (prior to starting the practice of law):

  • BS, Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia
  • MS, Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology
  • MBA from the University of South Florida
  • JD from the University of Houston

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Potentially Explosive Mixture”, Proceedings of the 2025 Spring National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, April 6-9, 2025.
  • Patent Licensing Outline/Study Guide for Florida Bar Certification Examination in Intellectual Property, March 18, 2025.
  • “Paradise Lost? The Jungle of Copyright Protection for AI Output”, The SideBar, Newsletter of the Martin County Bar Association, March, 2025.
  • “A Kick in the Pants: Dismissals in Federal Court”, Master class presented at the American Inns of Court, Justice Major B. Harding Inn, March 22, 2023.
  • “Did Warhol Transform Prince?” The SideBar, Newsletter of the Martin County Bar Association, Feb. 2023.
  • “Threshold Issues in Filing a Complaint in Federal Court”, Master class presented at the American Inns of Court, Justice Major B. Harding Inn, April 27, 2022.
  • “Bars, Experiments, and Threats: Lessons for Engineers Who Deal with Inventions from Energy Heating, LLC v Heat On-the-Fly, LLC”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2022 Spring National Meeting, April 2022.
  • “Exceptionality Based on Persistence in an Unreasonable Litigation Position: Energy Heating, LLC v. Heat On-The-Fly, LLC,” The SideBar, Newsletter of the Martin County Bar Association, Dec. 2021.
  • “Aqualung Inferred: Inequitable Conduct in Regeneron v Merus,” Proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2019 Spring National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 2019.
  • “KABOOM! Misadventures in the Land of Patents,” Proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2018 Spring National Meeting in Orlando, FL, April 2018.

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