Elio Martinez found the lure of law on TV, his love of baseball in a part-time job and his passion for intellectual property in a law school classroom that spoke to his core.

“I took a copyright course in law school, and I really fell in love with the concept,” he said. “The whole concept of writing was always very important to me. So the whole concept of creating and the concept of protecting your creation is something that I guess emanated from that and evolved from that.”