About the Firm

Our firm is about you and your business. We strive to provide custom-tailored strategic legal advice, informed by our commercial experience, to help you navigate risk, and to build value.

Our collective experiences include being outside counsel at major law firms, and in-house counsel at large corporations. This background serves as a great foundation to enable us to see the forest for the trees, hone in on the issues at hand, and offer sound, practical guidance to address those issues in light of the forest.

Our firm's attorneys have experience in roles including general counsel, and chief intellectual property counsel, and have dealt with many different commercial legal topics. With that backdrop, our experience allows us to handle a wide variety of cases, and our expertise enables us to focus on generating, managing and enforcing intellectual property rights, and contract rights.

We are your strategic legal counsel.

Practice Areas

Transactional

  • Licensing
  • Acquisition
  • NDA/CDA
  • Product Development
  • Collaboration
  • Consulting
  • Research
  • Sales and Distribution
  • Supply

    • Intellectual Property

    Procurement, Opinions, Enforcement, Monetization

  • Patent
  • Trademark
  • Copyright
  • Trade Secret

    • General Counsel

    Healthcare Compliance

    Dispute Resolution

    Training and Education on Legal Topics

    Attorney Profiles

    Konstantin (Konny) Caploon, Esq.
    973-220-1756
    konny@caploon.com

    Konstantin (Konny) Caploon, Esq.

    Konny is a seasoned attorney with 15 years of outside and in-house experience, as well as 3 years of prior engineering experience. In-house roles have included being general counsel for Biomet Bone Healing, a division of Biomet, as well as head intellectual property counsel responsible for managing the IP of three divisions of Biomet, namely Biomet Spine, Biomet Microfixation and Biomet Bone Healing. Outside roles have included providing guidance to various sized companies as well as individuals. Legal counsel is provided with strategic vision, pragmatism, financial sensitivity, and vigilant attention to the client's goals and concerns.

    Education

    Seton Hall University School of Law
    JD, Concentration in IP
    1998 – 2001

    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    MS, Biomedical Engineering
    1993 – 1994

    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    BS, Mechanical Engineering
    1988 – 1993

    Admission

    New Jersey
    New York
    USPTO

    Michael Malyar, Esq.
    862-432-2919
    mike.malyar@caploon.com

    Michael Malyar, Esq.

    Michael is an effective and dynamic attorney. His practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property law, with emphasis on patents, opinions, IPRs and litigation. Michael's experience includes having worked in small law firm settings as well as in a major one, on various complex matters for both small and large clients.

    Education

    Seton Hall University School of Law
    JD, Concentration in IP
    2010 – 2013

    Rutgers University, School of Engineering
    BS (double major), Chemical Engineering with Concentration in Biochemical Engineering AND Political Science
    2005 – 2010

    Admission

    New Jersey
    New York
    USPTO

    Get in Touch

    The Caploon Law Firm
    Montclair, New Jersey
    1-979-IPnBizLaw
    (1-979-476-2495)