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This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business.
If you have ever needed to secure patent protection for an idea, chances are pretty good that the Foster name has come to mind. Growing up in Salt Lake City's Avenues, Grant and Brett Foster watched their father, Lynn Foster, forge one of the pioneering intellectual property law practices in the Salt Lake Valley more than 40 years ago.
After earning undergraduate degrees in engineering and accounting at the University of Utah, Grant and Brett went on to earn law degrees at Northwestern University School of Law and BYU Law School. Grant headed to Washington state to practice patent law and Brett went to Phoenix to learn the ropes of litigation. Eventually the brothers joined forces with their father to create the intellectual property law firm of Foster and Foster, where they practiced for seven years.
With a thriving practice and a need for a larger, regional-based platform, Grant and Brett joined the law firm of Holland and Hart as partners in 2001 to establish an intellectual property practice in the Salt Lake office. Holland and Hart is a firm with 350 lawyers serving the Intermountain West, with offices in Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho and Washington D. C.
Grant, a registered patent attorney with 18 years of experience, currently serves as the practice group manager for all of the firm's patent attorneys. Brett's specialty is litigation, where he brings 17 years of experience as a trial attorney to bear on patent, trademark and copyright disputes that inevitably surface with intellectual property-based businesses. The Foster brothers represent numerous companies scattered across the country as well as several Utah companies including Browning, Easton Technical Products, Hoyt, K-TEK, Sonic Innovations, Snap Lock Industries, U. S. Synthetic Corporation and many others.
The Foster brothers have expanded the intellectual property practice in Holland and Hart's Salt Lake office to more than a dozen attorneys, six of which are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
For Zions Bank, I'm Fred Ball. I'm speaking on business.
