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Daniel R. Kimbell

Contact – Daniel.Kimbell@lozaip.com  | (818) 510-4834

Dan is an AV®-rated, registered patent attorney with over three decades of experience in patent and trademark prosecution, as well as IP licensing. Over the course of his career, he has prosecuted and secured more than 1,000 patents and thousands of trademarks for clients spanning numerous technical and business fields. Although Dan’s practice is grounded in rigorous patent and trademark work, he also delivers high-level counseling to organizations seeking to leverage their IP for strategic growth. His comprehensive approach enables companies—from startups to well-established corporations—to clarify their competitive positioning, expand revenue streams, and defend their market presence. Dan’s guiding principle is to align each legal decision with practical business goals, ensuring that every patent secured or trademark registered serves a larger vision of long-term value and marketplace differentiation.

because he brings to his legal work significant, firsthand entrepreneurial experience. Having co-founded four startup companies, Dan has an insider’s understanding of the complexities and time-sensitive demands that early-stage ventures face. Dan co-founded Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. www.emmausmedical.com) and served as its Chief Operating Officer for a decade. During his tenure, Emmaus achieved multiple milestones—running pivotal clinical trials for sickle cell disease treatments, licensing third-party pharmaceuticals, and building foundational business processes that paved the way for growth, and ultimately FDA approval and commercial launch of its commercial product Endari® (L-glutamine oral powder) to treat sickle cell anemia and sickle β0-thalassemia.

Dan’s breadth of experience—spanning patent drafting, trademark strategy, licensing, and executive-level operations—uniquely enables Dan to deliver actionable IP insight and actions.

Julio Loza

Julio Loza is a registered patent attorney and represents clients ranging from startup ventures to Fortune 500 corporations in all aspects of intellectual property counseling and protection. Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Julio worked for many years as a software engineer writing code for desktop applications and mobile devices in various programming languages.
He works closely with sole inventors and in-house counsel to develop effective intellectual property strategies to meet each client’s needs and exceed their expectations.

He has broad experience in all aspects of patent prosecution, and counseling. Julio graduated from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he also served as an adjunct professor of intellectual property law. He earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. His technical expertise includes software, mobile devices, microprocessors, cryptography, and network architectures.

Tina Loza

Christina S. Loza has a breadth of experience working for a large firm and as in-house intellectual property counsel. Given Tina’s experience, she is adept at working on an intense caseload as well as being sensitive to the needs and budgets of small and mid-sized businesses that are growing and investing in their intellectual property portfolios. Tina is dedicated to providing high-quality services and personalized attention to her clients.

She has experience in all areas of intellectual property law including trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, domain name disputes, internet law, eBay dispute resolution, as well as IP licensing, counseling, and litigation.  She especially loves to work with her clients on creating a branding strategy and having a strong portfolio of trademarks that adds value to their businesses.

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Derek Yeung

Derek Yeung is an intellectual property attorney specializing in the areas of patent prosecution of advance technologies. As a Chinese-speaking patent attorney, Derek also works with a variety of clients from China.

Derek has particular technical expertise in the following fields:

  • Analog, digital and mixed-mode semiconductor devices
  • Computer hardware and software design
  • Digital systems
  • Real-time systems
  • Networking devices
  • Telecommunication systems
  • Battery charging-monitoring devices
  • Advance microcontroller systems
  • Real-time software
  • Embedded controllers
  • Printed circuit board technologies
  • Semiconductor layouts
  • Display devices such as OLEDs, plasma displays, LCDs, and electron emission displays

Prior to joining Loza & Loza, Derek was a patent attorney at the law firm of Christie, Parker & Hale and a patent counsel at HRL Laboratories LLC. He has a broad electrical engineering experience and worked in various positions in different technology companies.