About Cochran Freund & Young LLC
Our Story
World-Class Trusted Intellectual Property Attorneys
Cochran Freund & Young LLC was founded in Colorado on March 1, 2004, when three attorneys joined forces around a single conviction: that the best Intellectual Property counsel comes from genuinely understanding a client’s technology, not just the law that protects it. Together they brought more than a century of combined experience in IP practice, and they built the firm to put that experience to work for the inventors, scientists, and companies advancing some of today’s most technical fields. More than two decades later, that founding principle still guides everything we do.
World Class Intellectual Property Services
Why Choose Cochran Freund & Young LLC?
Cochran Freund & Young LLC has built a reputation for protecting valuable ideas and technical knowledge for clients ranging from individual inventors to Fortune 500 companies. Our attorneys bring hands-on technical backgrounds, giving us a distinctive ability to understand complex innovations and advocate for them effectively. With offices in Fort Collins, Lakewood, and Longmont, and long-established relationships with international affiliates, we deliver customized domestic and global IP protection designed to fit each client's specific goals.
Full Service
Our lawyers offer full-service Intellectual Property law coverage, including all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law. This coverage includes counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation, with technology and international specializations.
Clientele Trust
Our patent attorneys provide world-class Intellectual Property services for research laboratories and universities, Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and businesses of all sizes, and individual inventors.
Comprehensive Backgrounds
Our Intellectual Property attorneys and patent agents have degrees and experience in engineering, electronics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, computer hardware and software, and mechanics, and they are licensed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Maximum Protection
From patents and technology licensing to R&D, joint development, and strategic partnering, we assist our clients with comprehensive plans for protecting and maximizing value for the long run.
Firm Profile
World-Class Intellectual Property Attorneys
Behind every patent and protection strategy at Cochran Freund & Young LLC is a team of attorneys and patent agents who pair legal expertise with real technical training in the fields our clients work in. Get to know the people who turn complex innovations into defensible Intellectual Property.
Testimonials
What Our Clients Say
Hi Bill, I read through your claims and I must say it is a work of art! Thank you so very much for being my patent warrior on this. I think if there is any elegance to this universe I’d say finding you was a one in a million shot. I feel very fortunate you understand it so completely.
Christopher Avina
President, Magic 8 Box
Thank you, James for all your efforts on this patent! I don’t have much patent experience, but this patent seemed very difficult, trying to explain and claim complex ideas while avoiding prior art. Sometimes Jerry and I have a hard time explaining the ideas or figuring out what we wanted to put in the patent and we’ve been working on the concepts for almost a year now. Your ability to digest everything we provided and turn it into a patent application is very impressive!
Nathaniel W. Crutcher
Continental Control Systems, LLC
I have worked with Bill repeatedly over the past 11 years and have found each of those interactions to be a pleasure. Bill is very knowledgeable, both from a legal and a technical point of view and the results we obtained were always what we had hoped for. I would strongly recommend him.
Gary Amato
Principal at Amato Consulting
Bill helped our company take many ideas and transform them into a patent portfolio. Bill was very good to work with and had an expert way about him. If I have need of patent or legal help again I would not hesitate to work with him again.
Tom Lemmons
Principal Engineer at DigiForge, LLC
Bill is an experienced comprehensive intellectual property attorney who can provide quality full service legal work from preparing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications to writing validity and infringment opinions to negotiating and drafting all types of licenses.
Guy Kelley
Associate General Counsel Hewlett-Packard
Bill is an absolute expert in patent law. I have the upmost confidence in his advice. His firm delivers the highest quality work.
Travis Gentry
President Financial Healthcare Systems, Inc.