A lawyer focused on startups in San Diego

How do lawyers at TACO.law help startups in San Diego?

TACO.law has lawyers focused on helping startups, creative organizations, and early-stage ventures.

TACO.law is the website for Tech and Creative Organizations Law Corporation: a firm based in San Diego, California, that provides nationwide IP counsel.

TACO.law's founder created the firm to serve a local, regional, and national need IP counsel with a broad perspective on commercialization for early-stage ventures, especially those spun out of universities or licensing technologies tied to research.

Does TACO.law specialize in the law of tacos?

Well, not exactly. Nevertheless, the initialism felt appropriate in light of the firm's Southern California roots.

But TACO.law can help your taco-related business with legal needs that the firm serves, like those listed below. Every industry has IP needs—even taco-making.

Key service areas:

Licensing
Technology transfer
IP strategy and protection
Entity formation and early entity governance
Contract drafting and review
Early-stage fundraising

Read more about TACO.law's services here.

TACO.law serves the following businesses and individuals:

Tech startups
Creative organizations
University spinouts
Small businesses
Entrepreneurs, founders, and employees

Whether you're a university spinout licensing IP, a creative organization in need of counsel prior to a first major funding event, or a San Diego startup concerned with protecting IP assets, a lawyer at TACO.law may be able to help.

Attorneys

Kyle Welch, Esq.

Founder, Patent Attorney

Kyle is a patent attorney living in San Diego, California. Kyle founded TACO.law to serve what he perceived as a market need: Intellectual property counsel with a broad perspective on commercialization for early stage ventures, especially those spun out of universities or licensing technologies tied to research.

Before starting TACO.law, Kyle was a Licensing Manager in the Technology Transfer Office at San Diego State University. At SDSU, Kyle helped manage an office with 25-50 yearly disclosed inventions and creative works, oversee an IP portfolio resulting from over $140 million in annual rewards; negotiate and execute a six-figure license with a Big Five tech company; and support research in nearly every major scientific, technical, and academic discipline.

Before beginning his career as an attorney, Kyle graduated cum laude from The Ohio State University in 2011 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and cum laude from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 2014.

During law school, Kyle served as an Associate Editor on law review, interned with local nonprofit organization New Media Rights, interned with the Navy's patent division at SPAWAR (now NIWC), and externed with a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. Kyle also helped launch the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression project, where he served as Lead Editor and Legal Researcher from 2014 to 2018.

Kyle has authored multiple law review articles in areas as diverse as federal technology transfer policy and custodial interrogation.

Kyle passed the California Bar Exam in 2014 and the USPTO registration examination in October 2021.

Kyle's legal and non-legal interests include: working at the intersection of law and technology, helping entrepreneurs better the world with their ideas, using design principles to improve the law, reading both fiction and nonfiction, surfing, and watching football, basketball, and Simpsons reruns.