Pangrle has handled US and International patent matters for Fortune 500 corporations and national laboratories (NREL, Sandia, Los Alamos).  Current clients include MNCs in automotive, computer and energy technologies as well as SMEs in biotech.

Pangrle has handled domestic and international trademark matters, copyright matters and litigation before trial and appellate courts.  He represented Casamigos Tequila LLC in Intellectual Property matters from 2011 until its sale to Diageo PLC in 2017.  He was also involved in the start-ups Bluefile IP Services Pvt Ltd. (US and India) and IP Street, Inc.  His pro bono work included drafting arts, crafts and trademark legislation for the Pueblo of Zuni and congressional testimony for the Federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act and serving as a board member and the chair of The Spokane Regional International Trade Alliance.

Pangrle has been an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at foreign law schools and an Adjunct Professor of International Business Transactions Law at an MBA program in the US.
As a Product Development Manager at Procter & Gamble's Brussels Office for Europe, Middle East and Africa, he served on the American Chamber of Commerce’s EU Consumer Affairs and Public Health Subcommittee.  He has handled a full range of intellectual property matters for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) clients.

University of Illinois, B.S. Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, M.S. Food Engineering
Technical University of Munich/Fraunhofer Institute, Visiting Scholar
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Visiting Scholar
Boston University - Brussels, M.A. International Relations
University of Minnesota, J.D. Law
 

Brian Pangrle

Licensed Attorney: California, New Mexico & District of Columbia
Registered US Patent & Trademark Office
Admitted Supreme Court of the United States