Sevag is licensed before all California courts, the United States District Court for the Central and Southern Districts of California, the USPTO and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Armenian Bar Association, the LA County Bar Association and the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.

He has published numerous trademark articles in Valley Lawyer Magazine. Sevag has been named a Rising Star since 2015 and a Super Lawyer since 2022 by Super Lawyers magazine. Over the course of his career, he has successfully prosecuted over 1,000 trademarks worldwide.

Prior to joining Foundation Law Group, Sevag worked for Viacom and the Disney-ABC Television Group, handling intellectual property matters and licensing agreements for their cable networks. He went on to work at a litigation firm in Century City, where he represented California’s largest school districts and private corporations in multi-million dollar litigation. Sevag then joined a boutique Intellectual Property law firm in Westlake Village, working on patent, trademark and copyright matters. He specialized in patent and trademark prosecution, and IP litigation. In 2013, Sevag joined Foundation Law Group, LLP, specializing in helping start-ups nationwide with their Intellectual Property, technology, and contractual issues, as well as aggressively litigating their intellectual property matters and business disputes.

Sevag’s recent notable court cases include:

• Regularly sending cease and desist notices and filing lawsuits in Federal Court to protect client trademark rights.
• Successfully defended a small business client’s trademark usage against accusations of infringement by a large multinational corporation.
• Represented an independent artist in a case against a major record label, where his oral arguments before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals led to the reinstatement of the client’s canceled trademark registration.
• Achieved a favorable outcome for a client by filing a declaratory relief action to safeguard their trademark use after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.
• Filing for a preliminary injunction to prevent ongoing sales of products by a competitor which infringed client’s patent.

Sevag received his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in New York. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside.