About Taylor M.
Taylor M. Norton combines technical education and legal background in a profession that spans engineering, corporate counsel work, and personal practice. He earned his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans in 2007 after finishing a master’s degree in civil engineering at North Carolina State University in 2004 and a bachelor’s in pure arithmetic at Louisiana State University in 2002. Loyola also awarded him a certificate in both civil regulation and regular regulation at some point of his legal research.
Norton began his professional legal career in 2007 as an affiliate at LeBlanc Bland, PLLC, where he labored as a registered patent lawyer. He moved into an in-residence position in 2011 when he became chief general counsel at Waller Marine, Inc. That post gave him front-line experience dealing with commercial disputes and company legal matters for an engineering and maritime enterprise. In 2015 he took at the head of intellectual property role at 1st earl baldwin of bewdley Haspel Burke & Mayer LLC, overseeing IP things for a broader client base. In 2016 he opened Norton IP Law Office and has practiced beneath that call as an intellectual property lawyer and registered patent practitioner since then.
His technical background is outstanding in his work. A graduate degree emphasizing structures and mechanics, paired with a mathematics diploma, informs his approach to patent work and technical counseling. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and holds memberships in both engineering and attorney teams, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.
Norton’s court and federal practice credentials include admission to the fifth Circuit and to multiple federal district courts. He has seemed pro hac vice in the Northern District of Texas and the Southern District of Mississippi, and he's licensed in Louisiana and within the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana. Those admissions have allowed him to manage patent legal proceedings and associated federal things when cases move beyond administrative proceedings at the USPTO.
Clients and peers describe his practice as technically grounded and procedurally attentive. He has handled patent prosecution at the USPTO, advised on patent portfolio improvement, and acted as counsel in federal legal proceedings. He continues to maintain memberships in countrywide and local bar and engineering associations. He currently practices at Norton IP Law Office, handling patent prosecution, patent legal proceedings, and counseling clients on highbrow property approach.
