To empower veterans through a concierge patenting process so that they can gain greater self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship.
Our Mission
As a nonprofit, Veterans IP’s mission is to provide pro bono patenting services to veterans and their dependents. We also provide advice on other forms of intellectual property protection, including copyrights and trademarks. If you are a veteran or military dependent and have an idea for an invention, we can help you figure out if it’s patentable and what steps to take next.
Our Founders
Our two veteran founders recognized the difficult process registering a patent, copyright or trademark and vowed to help other Veterans navigate the process. Veterans I.P. was formed to do just that.
Gregory D Carson is one of our two founders. Greg is a USPTO Registered Patent Attorney, a California lawyer, an engineer, an inventor, and a service-disabled veteran. He joined the United States Air Force as a Clinical Engineering Officer in 1986, the same year he graduated from the University of Iowa with his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. After two tours (Lackland AFB, and Clark AB, Philippines), Greg was selected for the Air Force Institute of Technologies advanced degree scholarship program and received his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1991. Greg left the Air Force injured in 1998, but continued to lead and manage new technology development implementation projects and hospital construction projects until starting law school at age 50, in 2013. Greg received his J.D. from the University of La Verne College of Law, in 2016. He has a wide range of experience patenting, from mechanical machinery and biomedical devices to computer imaging, software, and internet technologies. Greg is extremely passionate about being able to provide patent protection to fellow veterans and inventors like himself.
Andrew is the cofounder of V.I.P. His educational background includes a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and doctorate degrees in both medicine (M.D.) and law (J.D.).