2017 Athena Pinnacle Award Nomination
Heather Mueller, Individual In Services

Heather was nominated for her role in the development and advancement of skilled and talented women within MLO and the Southern California community and her example to other women of how to achieve success within the legal IP field.

The Mueller Law Office, P.C. has been awarded “Best for Patent Strategy – California” in the 2015 AI Legal Awards.

This prestigious award officially recognizes MLO as one of the most outstanding performers in their field.

…Everyone has got to be measured by the value they provide as a service provider and when you look at the combination of experience, support, communication, and cost, MLO offers a tremendous value.” read more

Mark Drucker
CEO, Silanna Semiconductor, U.S.A. Inc.
La Jolla, CA

The Mueller Law Office is the perfect partner in intellectual property, especially for a venture-funded tech start-up like us. Through their cost effective virtual law office business model…” read more

Aki Fujimura
CEO, D2S, Inc.
San Jose, CA

While working at a Silicon Valley high-tech start-up, we engaged The Mueller Law Office because we wanted specific attention on managing our IP strategy. We wanted to deal with a firm that could understand the idiosyncrasies of our business, suggest alternative approaches to protect IP…” read more

Cheryl Diuguid
North Carolina

At ZeroG, Heather Mueller came highly recommended to us. Initially, Heather worked with us to plan out patent strategy with a limited budget. She then brainstormed and worked with engineers, helped review and select ideas for disclosure, and then carried it forward to 9 issued patents in about 3 years…” read more

Bendik Kleveland
Distinguished Engineer, MoSys, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

We chose The Mueller Law Office because of their experience in the software and electronic hardware industry. Heather and Jon delivered high-quality work, but more than that, they were easy to work with, met their deadlines and were very responsive…” see more

Mona Sabet
Viblio
San Francisco, CA

…Heather is a sharp individual, intense in personal communications and very responsive. She is also extremely knowledgeable, and she is able to advise us on how to respond to office actions as only an expert can. I have learned a great deal from her about the patent writing process and about patent prosecution.” see more

Mike Tucker
Director of Intellectual Property, D2S, Inc.
San Jose, CA

Heather Mueller has always been responsive to my needs and especially sensitive to my desire to contain costs. The work has always been high quality and her team has consistently been available for time-sensitive issues…” see more

Steve Horne
Technical and Business Consultant in the Clean Tech Industry, Dark Roast Consulting, LLC
Half Moon Bay, CA

We’ve been very pleased with the services and the experience with the Mueller Law Office, not only because they got the job done but because of the way we got there and the professionalism of the firm…” see more

Carole-Ann Matignon
President and CEO, Sparkling Logic, Inc.
San Jose, CA

…I have extensive experience with patents and the MLO team’s ability to extract strong claims is exceptional.” see more

Jon Siann
Principal, JNC Strategy
San Diego, CA

With Heather, we went from a sprawling and stalled IP strategy, to one that has been cost effective and gotten results.  The MLO team provides high quality work and is very responsive to meeting our needs…”see more

Roy Mabrey
COO, Lifefactory, Inc.
Sausalito, CA