Kelley Keller
Kelley Keller, Esq. is an intellectual property (IP) attorney, speaker, and legal and business educator with two decades of experience in the IP field.
She works with individuals and businesses in a wide variety of industries helping them transform their ideas, knowledge, and innovation into valuable business assets that drive profits.
Kelley offers education to small business owners, creative and coaching professionals, digital entrepreneurs, and established businesses about starting, building, and growing a business on a solid foundation and the importance of protecting valuable brand assets and creative works so they provide enduring commercial value.
Kelley’s goals are simple:
- To educate you so you can identify, protect, and leverage your ideas, creativity, and innovation and turn them into profits.
- To educate you so you make the best decisions to ensure your business is positioned for growth and long-term success.
Kelley’s Unique Experience
Kelley’s two decades of experience in the intellectual property field give her unique insights into the value of brand assets and how social media and digital commerce affect the protection of those assets. Kelley’s career began with seven years with “boots on the ground” working for the National Intellectual Property Law Institute, a former “think tank” in Washington, D.C. During that time, she traveled to nearly 20 countries, including China, Turkey, Malaysia, and South Africa, working with U.S. and foreign embassies and high level government, academic, industry, and judicial personnel on issues related to IP and global trading.
She spent the next five years working for two of the largest IP law firms in the Washington, D.C. area. Kelley has extensive experience in preparing, filing, and prosecuting matters before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office. She has worked on legal transactions in over 200 jurisdictions around the world, including transactions with megabrands like DISNEY, TOYOTA, and SAFEWAY, among others.
In 2010, following a move to Pennsylvania, Kelley opened her own intellectual property law firm, The Keller Law Firm, and later a business education company where she joined the world of entrepreneurship. In 2017, Kelley is scaling back her private representation of clients through The Keller Law Firm to allow more time for her business education work. She also writes about trademarks, copyrights, social media, and business law for small business owners and entrepreneurs for numerous online and offline publications.
Kelley’s Education
Kelley received her bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University where she graduated magna cum laude. She received her Juris Doctor of Law, cum laude, from The Catholic University of America.