Mr. Rowald works as part of a cross-disciplinary team to help clients efficiently meet their goals and objectives. In addition to legal skill, the strength of Mr. Rowald's IP practice lies in his broad, educational background including both engineering and business degrees. Mr. Rowald has been a managing partner for a law firm and knows what it means to be responsible for profits and losses, business plans. He also has first hand experience working with in-house counsel, both general counsel and IP counsel. This experience provides Mr. Rowald with a valuable perspective that is hard to match. Mr. Rowald works closely with clients, developing a keen understanding of their business, and used this knowledge to advise his clients as they develop their intellectual property strategy, tailored to the client's business objectives. Mr. Rowald has worked with clients to fill their legal needs relating to acquisition, use and maintenance of intellectual property assets.

Mr. Rowald's experience in working for clients includes negotiating and drafting license, purchase, sale, joint venture and other agreements to protect and profit from celebrity likeness and image, company logos and trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and patents.

Mr. Rowald has also worked with teams of lawyers to provide due diligence, including full title searches, to support acquisition and divestiture of companies and intellectual property assets. He has recorded security interests in intellectual property assets and, if the client so desires, insured that a perpetual docketing system is used to ensure that underlying intellectual property assets are maintained for the life of the security interest. He has also assisted financial experts in developing detailed models for evaluating intellectual property assets for risk management, collateral, gift evaluation, acquisition and divestiture, and initial public offerings.