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At a Glance
| Firm | Accelerate IP |
| Attorneys | Burt Skiba and Clark Proffitt |
| Office | Tempe, AZ — the firm markets extensively into neighboring Mesa but is based in Tempe, per its own site |
| Focus | Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and FDA compliance for entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses — a transactional and prosecution practice rather than litigation-focused |
| Education | Clark Proffitt: B.Sc. Biochemistry, Brigham Young University (2005); J.D. magna cum laude, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (2008); admitted to practice before the USPTO in 2007, while still in law school |
Sources: accelerateip.com (firm site), Alignable, ThreeBestRated. Compiled August 2026.
Origin
Engineering and Biochemistry Backgrounds Feeding a Small-Business IP Practice
Accelerate IP is built around two attorneys with technical training preceding their legal careers: Burt Skiba brings over a decade of mechanical engineering experience before his legal career, and Clark Proffitt earned a biochemistry degree from Brigham Young University before graduating magna cum laude from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 2008, where he was a Center Scholar for the Center for Law, Science and Technology and an editor for the Arizona State University Law Journal. Mr. Proffitt passed the patent bar while still in law school, gaining USPTO admission in 2007. A location clarification: despite the firm’s extensive Mesa-focused marketing pages, its own site identifies Tempe as the firm’s actual base — this profile tags the firm to Tempe accordingly rather than Mesa, where much of its search-visible content is aimed.
Practice
Patent and Trademark Prosecution for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
The firm’s stated practice is exclusively transactional intellectual property and business law: utility, provisional, and design patent prosecution; federal trademark registration; copyright protection; and FDA compliance counsel, with flat-fee pricing and direct attorney access as stated differentiators. The firm markets specifically to entrepreneurs, inventors, Amazon sellers, and small businesses rather than large corporate clients, and states its client base includes NIL (name, image, likeness) athletes and entertainment professionals whose work has appeared on major streaming and cable platforms.
Track Record
Patent and trademark prosecution outcomes are individual to each application and are not typically published as a comparable results table; no independent case-result compilation was located in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
Attributed client testimonials describe the attorneys as “consistently responsive and accessible,” with one client crediting them for successfully completing a trademark registration after a prior attorney’s application had been denied, and another describing help with LLC formation, trademark filing, and a patent submission. No negative reviews were located in the sources reviewed for this profile; that reflects the public record available, not a claim of a flawless history.
Community
No specific civic or pro bono activity beyond the firm’s direct client practice was independently documented in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Recognition
No Arizona Board of Legal Specialization certification was located for either attorney (Arizona’s BLS program does not currently certify an intellectual property law specialty), so this profile does not use the word “specialist” to describe them. Mr. Proffitt’s USPTO patent-bar admission and academic honors (magna cum laude, Center Scholar) are independently verifiable credentials distinct from marketing designations.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are almost entirely federal matters, governed by the Patent Act (35 U.S.C.), the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq.), and the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C.). Arizona’s own statutory contribution is narrower: the Arizona Uniform Trade Secrets Act, A.R.S. § 44-401 et seq. Small businesses and startups working with firms like this one should also be aware that FDA compliance, when relevant, is governed by an entirely separate federal regulatory scheme (21 U.S.C. and Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations) distinct from IP law.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Accelerate IP’s genuine differentiator is a deliberate focus on entrepreneurs and small businesses specifically — flat-fee pricing and direct attorney access are structural choices aimed at that market, distinct from firms in this category built around larger corporate patent portfolios. The honest caveat: the firm’s extensive city-specific marketing pages (Mesa, Tempe, and others) can make its actual home base less obvious than it should be; this profile relied on the firm’s own “About Us” materials to identify Tempe as the base rather than the market-specific landing pages, and prospective clients should confirm which office would actually handle their matter.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from accelerateip.com (firm site, including attorney bio pages), Alignable, and ThreeBestRated’s aggregated review summary. Accelerate IP did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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