Merchant & Gould Promotes Grace to Partner

(January 2008) - Intellectual property law firm Merchant & Gould is pleased to announce that it has promoted Ryan T. Grace of the Omaha office to partner at the firm. Grace's patent prosecution practice focuses on the areas of food processing, food packaging, software, e-commerce, telecommunications and the mechanical arts.

"Ryan encompasses the legal knowledge and technical expertise that has proven to be invaluable to our clients," said Randy King, CEO and managing director of Merchant & Gould. "On behalf of the entire firm, I would like to congratulate Ryan on this accomplishment."

Grace worked from Merchant & Gould's Seattle office for three years prior to opening the Omaha office in 2008. He is currently acting as managing partner of the Omaha office, managing a Fortune 500 company client as well as representing several other local, national and international entities.

Grace has been published in two national law journals and a local legal journal. He has spoken at multiple intellectual property seminars and he is an inventor on a patent application. Grace graduated magna cum laude from the Creighton University School of Law and has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.