Shannon Warren is a registered US patent attorney who handles patent prosecution for independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses across Texas. The firm runs out of two offices — Houston and Amarillo — and represents inventors based everywhere from College Station to the Texas Panhandle. Shannon has been practicing patent law since 2009 and is admitted to the State Bar of Texas (licensed attorney) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Registration No. 64325).
What this practice does
Patent law has many branches: litigation, licensing, opinion work, post-grant proceedings. This practice focuses on patent prosecution — the day-to-day work of taking a real invention from a sketch on a napkin to an issued US patent. That means:
- Listening carefully to the inventor describe the technology
- Drafting a specification and claims that capture what is actually new
- Filing the application with the USPTO
- Responding to examiner objections, often through several rounds of office actions
- Following through to issuance and, when appropriate, into continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part applications
Trademark filings are handled too, on a smaller scale. The bulk of the firm’s day-in, day-out work is patents.
Why this firm
The two things inventors usually mention after working with Shannon are:
Direct access. When you call, you talk to Shannon. There is no intake specialist, no junior associate, no relay back-and-forth. The intro phone call is free and almost always finishes in fifteen minutes. If we end up working together, the same person who answered your first call is the one drafting your specification and arguing with your examiner.
Technical depth. Shannon’s first career was in computer engineering — he earned his BS in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M in 2002 and spent the next several years working on hardware-and-software systems before law school. That background helps with software, electronics, and embedded systems, but the bigger payoff is broader: real engineering experience makes it much easier to read a mechanical drawing, ask the right follow-up questions about a process, and write a patent specification that an examiner cannot dismiss as hand-waving.
Practice areas
The portfolio spans seven core areas, with over a hundred issued US patents currently published in the Innovation Showcase:
- Computer Science & Software
- Mechanical Engineering
- Oil & Gas
- Agriculture
- Medical Devices & Surgical Instrumentation
- Energy & Hydrogen Technology
- Robotics & Automation
Within those areas, the firm has done patent work for clients in roughly twenty-five industries — see the industry hubs for representative inventions in each.
Texas focus
Both offices are in Texas; the inventors are too. Houston covers the Gulf Coast and Brazos Valley region — inventors from Houston, College Station, Liberty, Cypress, Conroe, Spring, Friendswood, and surrounding cities. Amarillo covers the Panhandle and South Plains — Amarillo, Lubbock, Canyon, Plainview, Childress, Hereford, Borger, Dalhart, Wichita Falls, and the smaller communities scattered between them. See the map of every city where the firm has secured a patent or browse the full alphabetical list.
Professional roles
- Past Chair, Computer and Technology Section
- Past President, Houston Founder Lions Club
Bar admissions and registration
- State Bar of Texas — Licensed attorney
- United States Patent and Trademark Office — Registered patent attorney, Registration No. 64325
Offices
Houston Office — 825 Town & Country, 12th Floor, Houston, TX 77024 — (713) 322-3759
Amarillo Office — 600 S. Tyler, STE 2100, Amarillo, TX 79101 — (806) 553-0101
By appointment only. Available 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM for calls.
Getting started
The first conversation is a free intro phone call. We will talk through what you have built, whether patent protection is the right fit, and what the realistic next steps look like — including ballpark cost. From there, if it makes sense to move forward, Shannon handles the drafting, filing, and prosecution end to end.
Contact Shannon Warren to schedule a call, or call the office directly.
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