Todd Pleiness
Of Counsel
Practices
Intellectual Property
Education
Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law, East Lansing, MI, 2006
Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, 1999
Admissions and Courts
Michigan, 2006 United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2008
Todd Pleiness concentrates his practice in intellectual property law, i.e., patents, copyrights and trademarks. He graduated from Kettering University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and received his Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law in 2006, with a concentration in Intellectual Property & Communications Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Before attending law school, Mr. Pleiness worked as a co-op student and later as a manufacturing engineer at General Motors Corporation, troubleshooting the application and automation in the paint department of the Hamtramck Assembly Center. As a co-op student at GM, he supervised the installation of instrument panels and steering wheel clusters, and aided in productivity advancements in the Production Planning Department. Subsequently, Mr. Pleiness was a resident engineer at INA USA Corporation for two years, where he acted as a liaison between customers, application engineering and plant scheduling. He gained knowledge in the design, failure analysis, manufacturing process, i.e., stamping, cold-forming and heat treatment, and assembly of thrust and roller bearings. During law school, he was an intern with a firm in Bloomfield Hills, MI and later as an intellectual property attorney, until joining the Rasor Law Firm.
