Fast Forward Law LLC

Innovation is hard enough. We make protecting it easier.

With over fifty years of combined experience helping inventors and creators, we provide the clarity and guidance to move your best ideas and creations forward.


Fast Forward Law LLC, combining the expertise of Crawford I.P. Law LLC and Klein Law LLC.

Fast Forward Law LLC
Intellectual Property, Missouri

Practice Areas

Full Service I.P. Legal Counseling

Intellectual property issues are as diverse as your business. From Assignments to Zombie copyrights, we have the experience and expertise to provide legal guidance and a business strategy supporting your success.  Your I.P. needs are often the keystone enabling your competitive advantage.  We provide practical and results-oriented business solutions.  Our team secures all types of intellectual property protection, including patent portfolio protection, I.P. agreement drafting, copyright counseling, trademark protection, and mediation/arbitration services.  We provide a full suite of protection for your creative work.  With our help, you can focus on growing your business while using your I.P. assets strategically and profitably.  Understanding the benefits and limits of each type of protection, we offer optimally-targeted protection specifically tailored to your needs and goals.

Patent Portfolio Protection

Protecting key inventions supercharges your business, providing a competitive advantage.  Patents help create a moat around your technology, fostering business development, marketing, and further innovation.  Our team is passionate about helping businesses and inventors prepare and prosecute patents in the US and around the world.  We work to ensure the process is simple, efficient, and cost-effective. 


In addition to guiding clients through patent preparation and prosecution, we prepare opinions regarding patentability, clearance, freedom-to-operate, due diligence, validity, and infringement. We also provide patent portfolio management services, ensuring your patent portfolio is working for you, while minimizing costs and effort.

I.P. Agreements

We represent clients in a wide variety of I.P. business ventures.  We also prepare, review, and negotiate all forms of I.P. agreements to preserve client rights when licensing, developing, and marketing inventions. We draft and provide legal advice regarding many different types of IP Agreements, including technology licenses, patent licenses, joint development agreements, joint ventures, assignments, purchase agreements, divestitures, consortiums, research and development agreements, employee agreements, confidentiality, and non-competition.  


In addition, we have experience in performing IP due diligence reviews and recommendations for mergers and acquisitions.

Copyright Counseling

From multi-million dollar software programs to the music written and recorded by local musicians, we believe our clients' expressions are valuable and deserve our vigilance.  Our firm has considerable experience in helping its clients obtain and protect their rights against unauthorized copying.  In addition to copyright registration, we advise our clients in a variety of copyright-related areas, including qualifying for copyright protection, copyright infringement, fair use, licensing, seeking permission to use copyrighted works, and using and protecting works on the Internet.

Trademark Counseling

Branding and trademark practice defines the image and culture of your business and technology.  The firm includes a strong trademark practice.  We use a variety of searching tools to assess the availability of prospective marks.  We use state-of-the-art software and techniques to monitor client trademark portfolios.  We counsel clients on a variety of related topics, including infringement risks, preventing infringement and dilution, fighting infringing entities, domain name registration, and use of trademarks on the Internet.

Mediation and Arbitration

We provide all types of mediation, including collaborative mediation.  Unlike conventional business mediations, collaboration mediation fosters open dialogue between the parties.  Parties remain together in the same room throughout the process.  The mediator facilitates discussion and allows the parties to achieve their own settlement without filtering messages between parties, resulting in settlements parties are more likely to uphold.  Although we believe collaborative mediation produces better results, we do provide conventional mediation services on request. We also provide arbitration, including FINRA arbitration.

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About Fast Forward Law LLC

We have created a law firm that focusses on our clients' needs first.  We strive to support your business with cost effective, timely, and practical legal solutions.  Our team is ready to work hand in hand with you to support your most important initiatives.  We use a network of domestic and foreign attorneys who have a wealth and range of business law experience to provide the expertise and level of assistance you need on individual matters, without the overhead of a big firm.  You get to know the people on your team and have access to customized expertise on demand -- paying for it when you need it and not when you don't.  This allows us to be flexible and powerful in providing the services you need at value-based fees.


Fast Forward Law LLC, combining the expertise of Crawford I.P. Law LLC and Klein Law LLC.

Intellectual Property Legal Team

Meet the team

Our team has the experience, work ethic, and tenacity to meet the needs of your business. We are passionate about technology, business, and the law. Our goal is to integrate seamlessly with you and your organization, enhancing the success of your team, ideas, and mission.

David E. Crawford

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Dave has been an intellectual property attorney since 1993, representing public and private corporations, emerging entities, and aspiring inventors. Dave has helped a diverse array of clients and technologies in his long career. Dave earned a mechanical engineering degree from The Ohio State University, a masters in engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati, and a law degree from Northern Kentucky University. For a decade before becoming an attorney, Dave was a design engineer at GE Aircraft Engines. Dave enjoys his free time raising a daughter with his wife Mary and fly fishing when he gets the chance.

Brian P. Klein

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Brian has been an intellectual property attorney since 1999, representing diverse clients in private practice, working as in-house I.P. counsel for Emerson Electric, and serving as I.P. counsel and Director of Intellectual Property Portfolio Strategy & Development for Boeing. Brian earned a mechanical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology and a law degree from Washington University. Before becoming an attorney, Brian was a design engineer at Ford Motor Company. Brian enjoys raising two daughters with his wife Sandy, cycling and camping in his spare time.

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