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Seed IP attorneys selected to 2025 Washington Rising Stars

Seed IP Law Group is proud to announce the following attorneys have been selected to the 2025 Washington Rising Stars list: Blake Kumabe, Toby Ligon, and Bradley Zentz. The list is featured online and in Washington Super Lawyers magazine, which is published annually each summer by Thomson Reuters. Rising Stars honorees are nominated and selected through a detailed process based on nomination points, research points and peer-review points. The Rising Stars designation is given annually to a select group of attorneys, each of whom has either been in practice for less than 10 years or are under the age of forty.

All three honorees selected to Rising Stars specialize in intellectual property law. Toby is an attorney in Seed IP’s Biotechnology, Chemistry & Pharmaceuticals Group, while Blake is a member of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Group, and Bradley is in the firm's Mechanical Engineering and Trademark Groups.

Seed IP proudly congratulates our attorneys who have been selected to Washington Rising Stars in 2025:

Blake Kumabe | Partner, Seed IP Law Group

Toby Ligon | Senior Associate, Seed IP Law Group

Bradley Zentz | Senior Associate, Seed IP Law Group

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