Price Heneveld welcomes Russell Franks to our team

Price Heneveld is pleased to welcome Russell F.S. Franks to the team.

Russell joined Price Heneveld in 2022 after accumulating eight years of experience in an Am Law 200 firm, working initially three years as a clerk through law school and subsequently five years as an attorney.  Russell has experience drafting and prosecuting foreign and domestic patents in a wide variety of technologies including automotive components, autonomous driving systems, human-robot interaction, medical devices, gaming systems, and in an array of additional fields.  He also has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting design patents, preparing invalidity opinions including post-grant filings with the U.S. Patent Office, freedom-to-operate opinions, and work-around advisement.  Russell graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2008 with a B.S. in Physics and worked in the legal field studying negative side effects of pharmaceuticals and medical devices for large mass tort litigations.  He received his J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2016.