About Brent Sausser

Brent Sausser is a U.S. licensed trademark attorney and listed US trademark Attorney of Record with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for hundreds of clients. He has filed more than 1,000 U.S. trademark applications. Brent was one of the top trademark filing attorneys in the U.S. in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.* Brent was selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2020 and named Legal Elite by Charleston Business Magazine in 2021 and 2022. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law; consistently ranked one of the top intellectual property law schools in the US. A large portion of his legal education was intellectual property focused. Brent worked for the Pierce Law Intellectual Property & Transaction Clinic. Here, he helped small businesses with their intellectual property needs, including drafting cease and desist letters, writing legal opinion letters, as well as policing clients’ trademarks.

Brent also worked as an in-house legal extern at the nationwide specialty retailer, Brookstone. At the Brookstone headquarters in Merrimack, New Hampshire he assisted in-house counsel with its extensive trademark portfolio. He policed the company’s trademarks as well as spoke with marketers on the best course of action for choosing appropriate names for new products based on his administered trademark clearances. He is a US trademark attorney that has experience filing trademark applications, drafting and filing responses to USPTO Office actions, drafting trademark settlement agreements, drafting and filing trademark oppositions and cancellations, as well as filing copyright applications.

Brent grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science in management, emphasis on entrepreneurship. Brent currently lives in Charleston with his wife and daughters. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, New York, and South Carolina and a member of the Charleston County Bar Association.