Firm Overview
Dunlap Codding, P.C.
New ideas are the fuel of progress and the foundation of success. Dunlap, Codding will help you protect your ideas so your business can thrive in today’s competitive marketplace.
Dunlap Codding is a group of highly dedicated professionals with diverse scientific and legal acumen. The philosophy of the firm is simple: to provide our clients with high quality, timely, reasonably priced legal services; to listen and respond to each client’s unique needs; and to help our clients create a robust intellectual property portfolio, vigorously pursued and properly grounded in both science and law.
With experienced, dedicated professionals specializing in the areas of mechanical, electrical, chemical and petroleum engineering, chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceutics, and computer software, Internet systems and litigation, Dunlap Codding will help you identify and protect all of your intellectual property; after all, innovative ideas are your greatest assets. And your future depends on the protection of those assets.
Founded in 1957, Dunlap Codding continues to meet the needs of both national and international clients, offering unique pricing advantages over most bi-coastal or large, metropolitan intellectual property law firms. Large enough to provide depth and experience in almost any field, Dunlap Codding is small enough to provide personalized, responsive legal representation.
As Oklahoma’s largest, oldest and most versatile intellectual property law firm, we maintain a wealth of experience in the areas of utility and design patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing, technical asset evaluation, due diligence inquiries, patent and trademark litigation, and antitrust law.
News & Press Releases
Dunlap Codding is a nationally recognized leader in the area of Intellectual Property Law with offices in Oklahoma City and Washington D.C. Learn more about our recent work, clients and firm members.
- April, 2009

“Patently Offensive? Authorities question possible patent system overhaul” quotes Christopher W. Corbett, Ph.D. and Douglas J. Sorocco on current and future efforts at reforming the U.S. patent laws. Oklahoma Business Journal. - February 17, 2009

DC Adds Three Lawyers – John Behles, Joe Maxey, and Charles Krukiel
- December 17, 2008

DC Names Nicholas D. Rouse Managing Director - May 16, 2008

Douglas J. Sorocco named an “Achiever Under 40″ by The Journal Record. - August 16, 2007

Dunlap Codding Helps Teenager Receive Patent on Horse Weight Calculator
- August 02, 2007

Buchanan Quoted in Law.com article on Patent Reform Gaining Traction
- June, 11, 2007

Nicholas D. Rouse Quoted in OKC Business Journal regarding Supreme Court’s KSR Decision
- June, 11, 2007

Douglas J. Sorocco Quoted in OKC Business Journal regarding E-Commerce Law