California Bar No. 347496 · Los Angeles

StartupsEngineeringPrivacy

A California solo practice for engineers: entity formation, contracts, IP, and privacy counsel from an IAPP-certified attorney.

Practice areas

Four verticals. One point of contact.

01

Intellectual Property

U.S. Trademarks - Copyrights

U.S. trademark clearance, filing, and prosecution before the USPTO, plus copyright registration where it matters. International brands and foreign counsel: direct U.S. representation for USPTO trademark matters - foreign-associate rates by email.

Flat legal fee$500+ USPTO filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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02

Entities

LLC - C-Corp - S-Corp - Nonprofit

Formation plus the governance documents needed to actually operate the company: operating agreement or bylaws and initial consents, EIN, ownership and capitalization basics, and initial state filings.

Flat legal fee$500+ state filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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03

Data & Privacy

CCPA - CPRA - GDPR - AI governance

Privacy policies and notices, CCPA/CPRA and GDPR issue spotting, data governance, and AI-system governance from IAPP-certified counsel. Additional privacy compliance work is scoped separately where your data practices or regulatory footprint require it.

Flat legal fee$500scope confirmed at intake
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04

Contracts

Drafting - Review - Negotiation

NDAs, Terms of Service, services agreements, SaaS and licensing paper, and vendor contracts - drafted or reviewed and redlined against the deal you're actually doing.

Flat legal feefrom $100scope confirmed at intake
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How it works

Four steps, in order.

Step 01

Tell me about your matter

A short questionnaire, scoped to what's reasonably necessary to evaluate the matter - nothing more.

Step 02

Conflict check and scoping

A conflict check runs before anything substantive is discussed, then the scope and fee structure are confirmed.

Step 03

Engagement letter, e-signed

A clear, written agreement with every required disclosure, signed before work begins.

Step 04

Work begins

You get a direct line to the attorney handling your matter - not a triage queue.

Attorney

Eric Adar Carver, Esq.

Trained at UC Berkeley School of Law (Law & Technology certificate, Berkeley Technology Law Journal). Advised the European Parliament in Brussels with the Center for Democracy & Technology on net neutrality, IP protection, and data privacy. Prior experience at Fenwick & West and Ballard Spahr on technology, IP, and privacy matters. Built compliance, terms of service, and privacy infrastructure at Squire Technologies for Apple Tap to Pay with Stripe, and led engineering as founder/CTO of Knowbody, Inc.

Certifications
CIPP/US
Certified Information Privacy Professional / United States
CIPP/E
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe
CIPM
Certified Information Privacy Manager
CIPT
Certified Information Privacy Technologist
Education & training
UC Berkeley School of Law
Juris DoctorBerkeley Technology Law Journal
PRO BONOLAW & TECHGEN AI
UCLA
B.A. of Philosophy
DEAN'S HONORSCLUB QUIDDITCH

Certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), not the State Bar of California. CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and CIPT are certification marks of the IAPP.

Bar admission

California

State Bar No. 347496

Admitted in California only. This site does not represent admission in any other jurisdiction.
Subscription

General Counsel

Monthly access for day-to-day legal questions and quick contract reviews.

Monthly subscription$99/month

Billed automatically every month until cancelled. Cancel any time before your next billing date - no cancellation fee, and no partial-month refund for the then-current billing period. A cancellation link is included in every receipt and confirmation email.

Startups

What I've built

Minimally Viable Products (MVPs).

CARVER LABS / 68 PROJECTSALL SYSTEMS LIVE
CRISPRDNALab screenshot01LIVE
CRISPRDNALabMVP

A platform for in-silico CRISPR-Cas9 simulation and genomic analysis - immutable original sequences, a canvas-based genome viewer down to nucleotide resolution, hypothetical edits with before/after diffs and codon-level protein-impact prediction, an AI research assistant grounded in each project's own data, and a provenance-tagged evidence library.

Launch
C Compressor screenshot02LIVE
C CompressorMVP

A lossless compressor exploring physics-informed and quantum-inspired techniques - context-mixing neural prediction, a tensor-train decorrelation transform, and QUBO-based expert selection with a real IBM Quantum Runtime backend - byte-perfect round-trip enforced by checksums, not just hoped for.

Launch
Orbit Duel screenshot03LIVE
Orbit DuelMVP

Guess when a real satellite peaks overhead - live, multiplayer. Real SGP4 orbit propagation from live CelesTrak tracking data decides each round's answer, not a random number. No sign-in required; create a room and share the code with friends.

Launch
Decoherence Clock screenshot04LIVE
Decoherence ClockMVP

Measuring a qubit's memory. A real T1 relaxation-time experiment run against a simulated noisy qubit on Qiskit Aer, with the decay curve genuinely measured from repeated circuit executions and fit to extract T1. Free, donation-supported.

Launch
Reactor Log screenshot05LIVE
Reactor LogMVP

US nuclear fleet, live. Real daily percent-power data for every US commercial nuclear reactor unit, sourced directly from the NRC's public Power Reactor Status Report - pure operational transparency data. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Exo Log screenshot06LIVE
Exo LogMVP

A logbook of confirmed exoplanets. Browse real confirmed exoplanets by discovery method and year, pulling live data straight from the NASA Exoplanet Archive's TAP API. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Sun Watch screenshot07LIVE
Sun WatchMVP

Live solar activity. Real-time X-ray flare classification (GOES), active sunspot regions, and Solar Cycle 25 progress, sourced live from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Aurora Now screenshot08LIVE
Aurora NowMVP

Live space weather and aurora visibility. Real-time planetary K-index, solar wind speed, and OVATION-model aurora probability, sourced live from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Catalog Check screenshot09LIVE
Catalog CheckMVP

Real satellite orbital elements. Look up any tracked satellite by NORAD catalog number and see its current orbital elements, sourced live from CelesTrak's public GP API - the actual usable public orbital-data layer. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Fireball Watch screenshot10LIVE
Fireball WatchMVP

Recent atmospheric fireball events. Real recently detected fireball/bolide events - location, altitude, radiated energy - from JPL/CNEOS's public Fireball Data API, sourced from US government sensors. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Close Watch screenshot11LIVE
Close WatchMVP

Upcoming close approaches. Real near-Earth-object close approaches over the next 60 days from JPL/CNEOS's Close-Approach Data API, cross-referenced against the Sentry impact-risk table. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Horizon Log screenshot12LIVE
Horizon LogMVP

Live solar-system ephemerides. Real-time position (right ascension, declination, distance, range-rate) for any major solar-system body, sourced live from JPL's authoritative Horizons API. Fully free; an optional donation supports the project without gating anything.

Launch
Codon Garden screenshot13LIVE
Codon GardenMVP

A plant grown from real gene data. Fetches a real gene's CDS live from Ensembl, translates it with the standard genetic code, and deterministically maps each amino acid's real biochemical property to color and shape - a generative-art mapping driven by real data, not randomness.

Launch
Guide Design Co. screenshot14LIVE
Guide Design Co.MVP

CRISPR guide design, computationally real. Finds every candidate SpCas9 guide RNA adjacent to a real NGG PAM in a submitted sequence and scores off-target similarity via the position-weighted mismatch formula from Hsu et al. 2013 - computational design only, no synthesis or wet-lab integration.

Launch
Spike Train screenshot15LIVE
Spike TrainMVP

Your neural rhythm score. A reaction-time test scored with real spike-train statistics - coefficient of variation and Fano factor, the same measures electrophysiology tools like Elephant/Neo compute on neural inter-spike intervals - applied to your own click timing.

Launch
Cortex Atlas screenshot16LIVE
Cortex AtlasMVP

A poster made from real brain data. Pick a brain region and Cortex Atlas pulls its real structural metadata - official name, ontology color, hierarchy depth - live from the Allen Institute's public Brain Atlas API, turning it into a personalized data poster.

Launch
Fair Pick screenshot17LIVE
Fair PickMVP

Decide fairly with real quantum randomness. A Qiskit circuit with rejection sampling picks exactly uniformly among any number of options - framed as a decision tool, not a raffle, since only the person creating a permanent draw pays and entrants pay nothing.

Launch
Superposition Postcard screenshot18LIVE
Superposition PostcardMVP

A keepsake from real superposition. Each postcard's 8x8 pattern comes from a genuine Qiskit quantum circuit - qubits put into even superposition with a Hadamard gate, then measured - run on a local Aer simulator with the backend name, shot count, and full bitstring shown as provenance.

Launch
Qcut screenshot19LIVE
QcutMVP

Real quantum optimization, on demand. Pick one of three small preset graphs, pay once, and this builds a real QAOA ansatz circuit in Qiskit, tunes it with a classical optimizer, and solves Max-Cut on a local simulator - checked against the true brute-force optimum, not an estimate.

Launch
Perigee screenshot20LIVE
PerigeeMVP

Know exactly when to look up. Real satellite pass predictions for any location, computed live from current TLE orbital elements via true SGP4 propagation - the same method professional tracking services use. Lookup is always free; optional prepaid alert-credit packs unlock heads-up alerts for a saved location.

Launch
Perihelion screenshot21LIVE
PerihelionMVP

Claim a piece of real sky. Every listing is a real near-Earth asteroid or comet with a confirmed upcoming close approach, sourced live from JPL/CNEOS's public close-approach catalog. Adopting one is a one-off purchase that puts a name and dedication on a permanent countdown page to the real closest-approach time.

Launch
NEO Call screenshot22LIVE
NEO CallMVP

Guess how close a real asteroid will pass - live, multiplayer. Real near-Earth-object close-approach data from JPL's Small-Body Database decides each round's answer, not a random number. No sign-in required; create a room and share the code with friends.

Launch
Constellation Race screenshot23LIVE
Constellation RaceMVP

Sort real exoplanets by size, fastest wins - live, multiplayer. Real radius data from NASA's Exoplanet Archive decides the correct order, not a random one. No sign-in required; create a room and share the code with friends.

Launch
Bolide Bash screenshot24LIVE
Bolide BashMVP

Guess a real fireball's energy - live, multiplayer. Real atmospheric fireball events from JPL/CNEOS's public Fireball API - US government sensor data - decide each round's real impact energy. No sign-in required; create a room and share the code with friends.

Launch
Qubit Standoff screenshot25LIVE
Qubit StandoffMVP

A real quantum-measurement duel - live, multiplayer. Each player picks a hidden qubit rotation; the actual Born-rule measurement probability, computed directly rather than client-side randomness, decides who wins. No sign-in required; create a room and share the code with a friend.

Launch
Entangle Race screenshot26LIVE
Entangle RaceMVP

Coordinate on a real entangled pair - live, multiplayer. Two players each pick a measurement angle for a real Bell pair; the actual quantum correlation, cos² of the angle difference, decides if their outcomes match. Cooperative goal: 5 matches in 8 tries. No sign-in required.

Launch
Grover's Gambit screenshot27LIVE
Grover's GambitMVP

Race a real quantum search - live, multiplayer. Search 8 hidden slots as a team while a real Grover's-algorithm run - the actual optimal iteration count and Born-rule success probability, not an invented number - races you to the same marked slot. No sign-in required.

Launch
Bell Test Bout screenshot28LIVE
Bell Test BoutMVP

Run a real CHSH Bell test with a partner - live, multiplayer. Pick measurement settings for a real entangled pair and watch a live correlation statistic climb past the classical limit of 2 toward the real quantum bound of 2√2. No sign-in required.

Launch
Reflex Arena screenshot29LIVE
Reflex ArenaMVP

Reaction time, scored like a real spike train - live, multiplayer. Five real reaction-time trials, scored with the coefficient-of-variation statistic neuroscientists use for spike-train regularity - fastest AND most consistent wins. No sign-in required.

Launch
Synapse Relay screenshot30LIVE
Synapse RelayMVP

A cooperative signal-memory relay - live, multiplayer. A growing pattern relays turn-by-turn between whoever's in the room; final score includes the coefficient-of-variation statistic neuroscientists use for spike-train timing regularity. No sign-in required.

Launch
Brain Atlas Bingo screenshot31LIVE
Brain Atlas BingoMVP

Real brain-region bingo - live, multiplayer. A 3x3 board of real brain structures from the Allen Institute's public Brain Atlas API; race to claim the called structure's cell and complete a line to win. No sign-in required.

Launch
Circuit Trace screenshot32LIVE
Circuit TraceMVP

Race a real brain-ontology pathway - live, multiplayer. Trace a structure's real ancestor chain from the Allen Institute's Brain Atlas, in order, before anyone else - a wrong node resets your progress. No sign-in required.

Launch
Guide Hunt screenshot33LIVE
Guide HuntMVP

Spot the best real CRISPR guide - live, multiplayer. Race to pick the best-scored real guide-RNA candidate from a real gene fragment fetched live from Ensembl - real PAM search and Hsu et al. off-target scoring. Computational scoring only. No sign-in required.

Launch
Codon Clash screenshot34LIVE
Codon ClashMVP

Translate a real codon, fast - live, multiplayer. A real codon from a real gene, fetched live from Ensembl - race to name the real amino acid it translates to, using the standard genetic code. No sign-in required.

Launch
Genome Sprint screenshot35LIVE
Genome SprintMVP

Room-based, anonymous multiplayer: a real gene fragment fetched live from Ensembl gets shuffled into 6 pieces, and players take turns placing the next real fragment in order, racing a shared clock as a team.

Launch
Phylo Face-off screenshot36LIVE
Phylo Face-offMVP

Room-based, live multiplayer: rank four real species by their real percent sequence identity to the human ortholog of a real gene - genuine comparative-genomics data from Ensembl's homology API, not an invented tree.

Launch
Rocket Sim screenshot37LIVE
Rocket SimMVP

Design a model rocket and watch real physics fly it. Nose cone, body tube, and fin geometry feed a genuine Barrowman stability calculation and a real atmospheric drag/trajectory model - center of pressure, center of gravity, and a full 3D flight sim, not a canned animation.

Launch
Ledger Beam screenshot38LIVE
Ledger BeamMVP

Track new federal regulations. Browse newly proposed and finalized federal rules, filterable by keyword or agency, sourced live from the Federal Register API. Free dashboard, optional donation.

Launch
Rollcall screenshot39LIVE
RollcallMVP

Public predictions, real bills. Record a timestamped, public prediction about a real bill's outcome (searched live via GovInfo) grounded in Tetlock's forecasting research - no money wagered. Optional paid alert subscriptions track a bill and re-check GovInfo for changes on demand.

Launch
Redact screenshot40LIVE
RedactMVP

File a FOIA request, track the real deadline. A generic, multi-agency FOIA request drafter/tracker cross-referenced against real public records via the GovInfo API, tracking the real 20-business-day statutory deadline (5 U.S.C. section 552(a)(6)(A)) with a base filing fee plus a conditional escalation fee that only charges once the deadline actually passes.

Launch
Watchdog screenshot41LIVE
WatchdogMVP

Draft, file, and track federal FOIA requests against a fixed set of DoD offices, with a password-gated status dashboard - encrypted requester PII, deadline tracking, and a hard block against ever filing placeholder text as a real request.

Launch
Bill Race screenshot42LIVE
Bill RaceMVP

Room-based, live multiplayer: race to sort four real current bills, fetched live from the GovInfo API, by their real introduction date.

Launch
FOIA Ready screenshot43LIVE
FOIA ReadyMVP

Cooperative beat-the-clock multiplayer: assemble a real, valid FOIA request for a real federal agency, sorting real required elements from real anti-pattern distractors before the shared team clock runs out.

Launch
Rule Watch Rush screenshot44LIVE
Rule Watch RushMVP

Live multiplayer speed quiz: a real newly-published federal rule's title appears, fetched live from the Federal Register API, and players race to pick the real agency that issued it.

Launch
Open Data Dash screenshot45LIVE
Open Data DashMVP

Live multiplayer sorting race: rank four real federal agencies by their real current-fiscal-year budget authority, fetched live from USAspending.gov.

Launch
Sign Summon screenshot46LIVE
Sign SummonAR

Point your phone at the Carver Esq mark and summon the dragon.

Launch
Dragon Rematch screenshot47LIVE
Dragon RematchAR

Beat the hidden dragon battle, then finish it in AR - Round 4.

Launch
knowbody screenshot48LIVE
knowbodyMVP

A two-sided marketplace connecting brands with everyday people for advertising - post a paid campaign, someone accepts it, proof of performance and payment collected through the platform.

Launch
Divine Wings screenshot49LIVE
Divine WingsMVP

A platform-as-a-service for funeral and mortuary services - intake, an in-app obituary builder, casket/flowers/service checkout, and a secure invite-only video ceremony with family chat.

Launch
VELA screenshot50LIVE
VELAMVP

A meal-planning app for people with food allergies and sensitivities - an onboarding intake for allergens and lifestyle (work hours, shopping habits, how often and how long you cook), and a recipe feed filtered and ranked around exactly that.

Launch
NILbody screenshot51LIVE
NILbodyMVP

A marketplace connecting brands with college athletes for NIL deals - post, browse, accept or counter-offer, complete, review, with agency commission, a generated license agreement, guardian-consent gating for minors, and compliance-disclosure tracking layered on automatically for any athlete deal.

Launch
Green Clean A Scene screenshot52LIVE
Green Clean A SceneLIVE

A real medical-waste and biohazard remediation company's public site and booking platform - real brand, real content, a service catalog, and a Stripe-backed deposit checkout so a customer can lock in a response without a phone call.

Launch
Court screenshot53LIVE
CourtMVP

A pickup basketball app with real stakes and real rankings - join an instant skill-matched queue or browse a public directory of open games, with a small Stripe deposit refunded to the winner and forfeited by the loser. A King of the Court mode adds a live rotation lobby (winner-stays-on, FIFO challengers) with honesty-gated scoring - only the defender confirms a basket, only the offense admits their own miss - feeding a real Elo rating and public leaderboard.

Launch
Tally screenshot54LIVE
TallyMVP

A shared-expense ledger for a trip, a house, a group - log what was spent and who it's split between, and a running balance keeps everyone honest. Unlike a plain IOU tracker, settling up is a real in-app payment through Stripe, not a separate Venmo request. An AI assistant grounded only in that tab's own expenses answers who owes what and why.

Launch
Tonight screenshot55LIVE
TonightMVP

Group decision-making via swipe-to-match - add a few options for what to do, share the link, everyone swipes yes or no one at a time like a dating app. First option to get enough yes votes wins, no more group-chat spiraling. An AI assistant grounded only in that session's own votes points out which options are close to matching.

Launch
Dibs screenshot56LIVE
DibsMVP

Strictly limited drops - set a quantity and a release time, and let buyers race for it. Once the units are claimed, they're gone, no restock. Claiming a unit puts a real 10-minute hold on it inside one atomic transaction, so two buyers can never both win the same unit.

Launch
Freefall screenshot57LIVE
FreefallMVP

A listing where the price only goes down - it ticks lower on a schedule until someone buys it. Wait for a better price, or risk someone else grabbing it first. Buying locks in whatever the price actually is at that instant, inside one atomic transaction.

Launch
Drawn screenshot58LIVE
DrawnMVP

A group gift exchange, drawn fairly - names are matched so nobody's ever assigned to themselves, and only you can see who you got. A small buy-in to join discourages ghosting once the draw happens.

Launch
Ladder screenshot59LIVE
LadderMVP

A competitive leaderboard that resets every Monday - log your numbers, climb the ranking, and start fresh every week. A slow start or a missed week never permanently buries you the way a lifetime ranking would.

Launch
Verdict screenshot60LIVE
VerdictMVP

Live audience polling with a real reveal - everyone votes blind, then the host reveals results live, like a TV audience vote instead of a running tally. Not even the host can see the breakdown before that moment.

Launch
Setlist screenshot61LIVE
SetlistMVP

A shared queue anyone can add to and vote on - items rise or fall by net vote, live, so the crowd curates the order. Song requests, meeting topics, Q&A questions - anything a group wants ranked together.

Launch
Knockout screenshot62LIVE
KnockoutMVP

A single-elimination bracket the crowd votes through, round by round, until one entry stands. March Madness for anything - winners automatically re-pair into the next round until a champion is crowned.

Launch
Sealed screenshot63LIVE
SealedMVP

A message for later - sealed until a future date, or anyone can pay to break the seal early if the wait gets to be too much. The message itself never appears anywhere, not even the API, until it actually unlocks.

Launch
Handoff screenshot64LIVE
HandoffMVP

Fund it. Deliver it. Release it. Post a job and fund it up front - payment is held, not charged, until the work is delivered and you approve the release. A separate private link for the client and for the worker.

Launch
Heartbeat screenshot65LIVE
HeartbeatMVP

Leave something on your own terms. Write a message, check in on your own schedule, and it stays with you. Miss too many check-ins and it releases to whoever you shared the link with in advance - not before.

Launch
Blip screenshot66LIVE
BlipMVP

A daily prompt circle - once a day, at an unpredictable time, everyone gets a short window to answer at once. Post late and it's flagged. You can't see anyone else's answer until you've posted your own.

Launch
Riser screenshot67LIVE
RiserMVP

The price only ever goes up. List something with a starting price and a step - every few units sold, the price climbs to the next tier, the same pattern behind tiered event-ticket pricing. No clock, no countdown - price is driven purely by how many people already bought.

Launch
Reparations screenshot68LIVE
ReparationsMVP

Symbolic reparations, matched and certified. Choose an amount and get randomly matched with a self-identified honoree and a cause from a curated nonprofit list, then receive a print-ready certificate documenting the match - a concept demonstration of the matching and certification mechanics, currently running in Stripe test mode with no real funds transferred. For sale: 40 acres and a mule.

Launch
Trademarks

What I've filed

Federal trademark applications filed and prosecuted for clients before the USPTO - shown by industry, not by client name, but every filing detail is real and verifiable against USPTO's own public record.

USPTO FILINGS / 09 MARKS4/9 REGISTERED
01REGISTERED
PROFESSIONALS L.A.WORD

Apparel & lifestyle brand (Los Angeles)

Filed and prosecuted through registration - covers metal plaques and apparel (hats, shirts) for a Los Angeles lifestyle brand.

SER 99143174REG 8164895
View on USPTO
02REGISTERED
UNDOCUSTARTUPWORD

Business education nonprofit

Filed and prosecuted through registration - business education and training services for undocumented entrepreneurs.

SER 99183305REG 8068219
View on USPTO
03REGISTERED
QUEENISSIMAWORD

Jewelry & accessories brand

Filed and prosecuted through registration - trophies and jewelry of precious metal for an accessories brand.

SER 79417484REG 8045399
View on USPTO
04REGISTERED
M MONIALLAGIDESIGN

Apparel brand

Filed and prosecuted a logo mark through registration - coats, hats, pants, shirts, and shoes for an apparel brand.

SER 98900450REG 8037334
View design mark on USPTO
05PENDING
CODEDCHANGEDESIGN

Continuing-education nonprofit

Filed and under examination - a logo mark for live and online continuing-education programming.

SER 99641922
View design mark on USPTO
06PENDING
MAISON BONDSWORD

Fashion brand

Filed and awaiting examination - clothing including jackets, kimonos, culottes, and trousers for a fashion brand.

SER 50049008
View on USPTO
07PENDING
THE KING OF CHEVYSDESIGN

Automotive lifestyle brand

Filed and under examination - a logo mark covering paper goods and coated fabrics for an automotive lifestyle brand.

SER 99476978
View design mark on USPTO
08PENDING
PATHWAY SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENTWORD

Sports management agency

Filed and published for opposition - business management and consulting services for a sports management agency.

SER 99352916
View on USPTO
09PENDING
LOVE MATTERS 4 CCP CHAMPION CLUB PRODUCTIONS LLCDESIGN

Apparel brand (pro bono, via Public Counsel)

Filed pro bono through Public Counsel and published for opposition - a logo mark for hooded sweatshirts, T-shirts, and tee shirts.

SER 99326209
View design mark on USPTO
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