Sam F. Breeze

Sam is the chair of the Design Practice Group at Lee & Hayes. He advises some of the world’s leading innovators on how to protect their brands by securing intellectual property on the ornamental aspects of their inventions.  Over the last 10 years, Sam and the Design Practice Group at Lee & Hayes have helped clients obtain over 10,000 U.S. design patents and foreign registrations.

Sam’s expertise is in the protection of the industrial design of electronic devices, graphical user interfaces, sports equipment, apparel, and other ornamental inventions. In addition, Sam has extensive experience protecting designs outside the United States including knowledge of the requirements involving The Hague Agreement. He also has patent experience with life science technologies including medical equipment and other biomechanical inventions.

Outside of Lee & Hayes, Sam spends his time in the kitchen and the garden. He was raised near St. Louis, Missouri and is a huge baseball fan apart from the Chicago Cubs.