About Karima
Karima Gulick trained first as an engineer. She earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, completing her coursework in 2008 after beginning studies in 2005. She later turned to the law, taking a J.D. at Western State College of Law at Argosy University and finishing that degree in 2015. In the same year she completed a certificate in International Business Negotiations through Hamline University.
Her early professional life was in aerospace and systems engineering. In 2009 she worked as a senior systems engineer at Rockwell Collins, where she spent time on technical projects that required both engineering rigor and coordination across teams. That technical background gave her practical insight into the kinds of inventions and systems that later became the subjects of patent work.
She moved into the legal world while still completing her law degree. In 2013 she served as an intellectual property clerk at the law office of L.N. Ginsberg. The clerkship provided hands-on exposure to patent prosecution and trademark matters and to the procedural demands of IP practice. After passing into private practice she established her own firm in 2016, practicing under the name Gulick Law.
Her practice combines two threads from her past: engineering and intellectual property law. She holds memberships in the Orange County Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the International Trademark Association, the latter of which she has been listed with since 2016. She is admitted to practice in California and before the Federal Circuit. Her background in aerospace engineering informs patent drafting, prior-art analysis and technical claim construction. She handles both patent and trademark matters and attends to the regulatory and contractual questions that arise in aviation-related work.
Colleagues describe her as someone who moves comfortably between technical diagrams and legal briefs. She draws on experience from engineering teams and from clerkship practice when preparing patent applications, responding to office actions and negotiating trademark agreements. Her legal education includes a formal credential in international business negotiations, which she applies in cross-border trademark discussions and licensing talks.
Gulick Law operates under the name Gulick Law - Patents, Trademarks & Aviation Law. Gulick continues to accept matters in patent prosecution, trademark counseling and aviation-related legal issues, handling client work from initial clearance and filing through dispute and negotiation when needed.
