Brett's practice focuses primarily on patent procurement,
and includes extensive experience with both U.S. and foreign patents.
Brett has drafted and prosecuted patent applications for a wide range of
technologies including chemicals and chemical processes, biological agents
and treatment methodologies, medical devices, prosthetic joints, ballistic
devices, bullet containment systems, and tools and machinery. Brett has
experience with patent appeals, patent re-examination and reissue
proceedings, patent infringement analysis, and freedom to operate
analysis, as well as experience with trademark prosecution and
enforcement, copyright filings, and litigation. Brett was included as a
member of the 2009 Utah Legal Elite.
Brett attended the University of Utah where he graduated
magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering. While
pursuing his education, Brett worked for two years at the Engineering
Department's Petroleum Research Center, a state center of excellence,
where he was responsible for designing experiments, designing and building
equipment and operating experiments in high pressure fluid dynamics and
oil reservoir simulation. Brett graduated from the S.J. Quinney College
of Law at the University of Utah where he was active in student
associations and as a student intern. Brett is currently a member of
the intellectual property and cyber law sections of the Utah State Bar.
Brett's hobbies include automobile construction and
restoration, radio control model airplanes, ceramics, and gardening.
These hobbies have given Brett experience in CNC machining of steel,
aluminum and plastics, designing and constructing electrical control
circuitry, designing, building, and flying model airplanes, construction
of refractory kilns for ceramics, making ceramic sculpture and vases and
formulating ceramic glazes. Brett is currently constructing a 1965 A/C
Cobra replica.