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Inside Weiss & Moy, the Phoenix office of an IP firm whose founder spent his career securing IBM’s basic semiconductor patents and running Motorola’s patent operation in Arizona before going into private practice for himself.
Weiss & Moy, P.C. — At a Glance
| FIRM | Weiss & Moy, P.C. |
| FOUNDED | 1976, Scottsdale, Arizona, by Harry Weiss; the Arizona office has since relocated to Phoenix, and the firm has expanded to Las Vegas, Nevada and Boca Raton, Florida |
| FOUNDER’S BACKGROUND | Harry Weiss — Managing Patent Attorney at IBM (semiconductor memory and logic devices, cryogenic semiconductor technology, lasers); General Patent Attorney for Motorola’s Semiconductor and Government Electronics groups in the Phoenix area; began his career as a patent aide in the Army Chemical Corps and later worked at the Atomic Energy Commission and as an international patent attorney for Western Electric |
| FOCUS | Patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, registration, licensing, and litigation; trade secrets; corporate formation and immigration matters |
| OFFICE | 4455 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85018 |
| CONTACT | weissiplaw.com |
Origin: An IBM and Motorola Patent Career Turned Private Practice
Harry Weiss built an unusually deep corporate patent career before founding his own firm: patent aide for the Army Chemical Corps, patent attorney for the Atomic Energy Commission, international patent attorney for Western Electric handling hundreds of Bell Labs patent filings, Managing Patent Attorney at IBM (where he secured several of the company’s basic semiconductor-area patents), and finally General Patent Attorney for Motorola’s Semiconductor and Government Electronics groups in the Phoenix area. He founded his own firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1976; the firm’s Arizona office has since relocated to Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor, and the firm expanded further to Las Vegas, Nevada and Boca Raton, Florida. Weiss practiced until shortly before his death in 2008. Jeff Moy, an electrical engineer and patent attorney with major electronics company experience, is a current name partner.
Practice Areas
The firm provides patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, registration, licensing, and litigation services, along with trade secret counsel and corporate formation and immigration services. Weiss & Moy bills patent prosecution work on a flat-fee basis — a model the firm has used since its founding — so clients know costs upfront rather than facing open-ended hourly billing for that work specifically.
The Immigration Practice: Jessica J. Weiss
Weiss & Moy’s immigration work is not an incidental service tacked onto the firm’s patent practice — it’s led by a named, dedicated attorney, Jessica J. Weiss, who holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1997) and practices from the firm’s Phoenix/Scottsdale and Boca Raton offices. Her practice covers both family-based immigration (marriage cases, sponsorship of parents and siblings) and employment-based immigration (H-1B professional worker visas, L-1A intracompany executive/manager visas, R-1 religious worker visas, E investor visas), plus green card renewals, citizenship applications, and Diversity Visa Lottery entries. The firm’s site describes a particular depth of experience with R-1 religious worker cases — helping clergy and religious educators obtain work authorization and, eventually, green cards through that category — a niche not every general immigration practice emphasizes.
Track Record
Patent prosecution results are individual to each application and generally aren’t published, so there’s no independent case table to cite here. The firm’s public record instead runs through nearly five decades of continuous operation and Harry Weiss’s own documented corporate patent career, including his role securing foundational IBM semiconductor patents.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
One client described attorney Mark Weiss helping develop an effective strategy for protecting designs and inventions, providing what they called invaluable advice on protection relative to their budget, and suggesting effective courses of action when others encroached on their inventions.
Community
The firm’s flat-fee billing model for patent prosecution, maintained since 1976, reflects a client-cost-transparency commitment that’s unusual in a field where hourly billing is the norm.
Recognition
The firm’s attorneys hold USPTO patent attorney registration — a genuine federal credential requiring separate examination — and the firm’s senior professionals bring documented large-firm and major-corporate backgrounds (IBM, Motorola, and other major electronics companies). Arizona’s Board of Legal Specialization does not certify intellectual property law as a specialty, so this corporate and USPTO-credential history is among the most relevant available information for evaluating the firm.
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 contribution is narrower: the Arizona Uniform Trade Secrets Act, A.R.S. § 44-401 et seq., which governs the trade secret matters that sit alongside the firm’s patent and trademark practice.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Weiss & Moy’s genuine differentiator is Harry Weiss’s own corporate patent pedigree — few Arizona IP firms can point to a founder who personally secured foundational IBM semiconductor patents and ran Motorola’s patent operation — combined with nearly 50 years of continuous flat-fee patent prosecution service.
The honest caveat: this is a multi-state firm with offices beyond Arizona (Nevada, Florida), and its Arizona presence has moved over the decades from the original Scottsdale location to the current Phoenix office — worth knowing plainly, even though the Phoenix office itself is a genuine, established presence with its own attorneys and Arizona bar admissions.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from weissiplaw.com (firm site, Harry Weiss attorney biography, Jessica J. Weiss attorney biography, clients and FAQ pages), Lexinter’s law firm directory, and Catalog Lawyer’s Phoenix firm listing. Weiss & Moy, P.C. did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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