Craig Mueller serves as chair of the firm’s Mechanical Patent Practice Group.

Craig’s practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the mechanical, aerospace, electro-mechanical, civil, and software technology areas, drafting and prosecuting design patent applications, and preparing and prosecuting trademark and copyright applications. His practice also includes advising clients on various intellectual property protection strategies; protecting foreign intellectual property rights; drafting patentability, freedom to operate, and invalidity opinions; analyzing domestic and foreign patent rights; performing and supervising patent-related searches; and drafting technology-related agreements.

Before beginning his legal career, Craig was a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colorado, initially serving on the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle systems engineering team, then as a designer of the Atlas V launch vehicle liquid oxygen and RP1 feed systems. In this latter role, he performed mechanical design/structural analysis and supervised pre-launch testing of various Atlas V propulsion system components. Before entering the private sector, Craig was a research assistant at Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab, where he led a NASA-sponsored design team that studied the next-generation High-Speed Civil Transport. Craig also has real-world engineering experience in the civil and electrical engineering arenas.