During the 30+ years Doug Weller has been a patent attorney in Silicon Valley, California, he has obtained many hundreds of patents for preeminent technology companies, start-ups and individual inventors. From 1983 to 1987, Doug worked for Hewlett-Packard Company as an intellectual property attorney handing a broad spectrum of intellectual property issues for several divisions. In 1987, Doug founded his own law firm, specializing in patent procurement for the technology being developed in Silicon Valley and beyond.