Attorney Profile

Rod Rummelsburg
Malibu, California
phone (310) 456-3024
fax (310) 317-0484
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ROD RUMMELSBURG is Of Counsel to the Allan Law Group.

Rod Rummelsburg has extensive experience in Intellectual Property, Corporate and Commercial Law, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Mr. Rummelsburg leads our patent practice and is a registered patent attorney with The United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Rummelsburg has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation matters in California, numerous state and federal courts and various appellate courts including the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Mr. Rummelsburg has a comprehensive understanding of all phases of software development, having worked for many years at the Jet Propulsion Lab at California Institute of Technology, TRW and Hughes Aircraft as a software engineer. 

Mr. Rummelsburg has considerable international legal experience and has represented public and private, domestic and multinational corporations on business, litigation and international negotiation matters in over 125 countries including, China, Brazil, India, The U. K., Russia, Egypt, as well as in the African, European, Asian and North and South American continents.  He has also negotiated and structured telecommunication deals with numerous foreign government-owned utility companies.

Mr. Rummelsburg has worked closely with several government agencies, including The Commerce Department, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control and the Federal Communications Commission.

Experience:

  • Mr. Rummelsburg has filed countless patents, trademarks and copyright applications in the United States, and works with matters involving worldwide protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

  • Mr. Rummelsburg successfully defended a client in a multimillion dollar dispute involving breach of contract, misappropriation of software and trade secrets.


  • As in-house legal counsel for an Internet based direct marketing firm, Mr. Rummelsburg was responsible for representing the company in superior court in contract and tort vendor disputes and shareholder derivative actions.  He was responsible for all phases of litigation, which included serving as first chair on an evidentiary hearing at an American Arbitration Association matter that included misappropriation of software and trade secrets.

  • He won a multimillion dollar settlement for business interruption losses and bad faith against a national insurance company.
    • Areas of Practice:
    Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
    Corporate Law
    Business Law
    Intellectual Property
    Litigation
    Education:

    Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
    Honors: Phi Delta Phi Law Honor Society

    Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    M.S. Computer Science
    Honors: Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society

    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    B.A. Motion Picture and Television

    Professional Associations and Memberships:
    United States Patent and Trademark Office, registered patent attorney


    The Association of Trial Lawyers of America


    American Bar Association


    State Bar of California, Attorney at Law, member in good standing


    Los Angeles County Bar Association


    Association of Corporate Counsel America

    Allan Law Group represents clients with domestic and international business interests in the United States, China, Russia, India, and the southern California cities of Los Angeles, Universal City, Pacific Palisades, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Pasadena, Glendale, Woodland Hills, Encino, Century City, Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Malibu, Ventura, Santa Monica, Culver City, Marina Del Rey, and Malibu.