Carl Turk has over 18 years of experience in intellectual property law. Carl is a registered patent attorney with vast legal experience in prosecution, counseling, licensing, compliance, and litigation. Carl was most recently managing partner of Hertzberg, Turk, & Associates, LLC and Turk IP Law, LLC.

Carl specializes in portfolio management, focusing on technologies, such as optical networking and testing, RFID systems, telecommunications, computer architecture, testing systems and devices, medical devices, software, and business methods. Carl has represented start-ups to Fortune 10 companies, specializing in prosecution, portfolio management, post grant proceedings, inter partes reviews, invalidity, clearance, licensing, branding & marketing, data privacy, negotiations, due diligence, risk mitigation, and various aspects of litigation and pre-litigation work.

Prior to joining Mannava & Kang, P.C., Carl managed Hertzberg, Turk, & Associates, LLC and Turk IP Law, LLC. Before that, Carl was an Associate at Merchant & Gould, LLC, working with Fortune 100 clients in a variety of technologies. Before becoming a patent attorney, Carl was an electrical engineer for 12 years, creating solutions in wired and wireless devices and systems, RF technologies, and semiconductor technologies.

Carl spends his non-patent related times on working with children with developmental disabilities, gardening, cooking, and traveling.