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Miami, Fl, Us

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Conduct legal research, draft complaints, and draft motions on legal issues including claim construction, non- infringement, invalidity, and enforceability in support of litigation. Draft patentability, freedom-to-operate, and invalidity opinions. Review and analyze file wrappers for granted patents in litigation. Draft and prosecute patent applications in mechanical and electrical arts including diagnostic medical devices, internal combustion engines, robotic vacuum cleaners, soundbar systems, and artificial intelligence-driven data analytics software. Manage large patent portfolios including corresponding with foreign counsel and counseling clients on patent portfolio management. Review assignment/licensing agreements, identify assignment/licensing issues, and prepare assignment/licensing agreements for intellectual property assets in support of due diligence.

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Summer Associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

• Drafted patent and trademark applications for domestic and global clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. • Conducted trademark and prior art searches and drafted amendments and responses to Office Actions. • Drafted patentability and infringement opinions. • Performed legal research on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret issues in support of litigation.

Alexandria, Virginia

Patent Examiner in TC3700, AU3791• Assigned to Class 600; Subclasses 1-15, 19-41, 302-371, 398-406, 481-507, 529-595. • Evaluated the patentability of patent applications pertaining to medical devices in a variety of diagnostic fields, as well as biological sampling devices. • Performed prior art searches to ensure the novelty of the invention. • Authored legal office actions on patentability and responded to patent applicant’s arguments.

Bethesda, Maryland

Contractor in support of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD• Operated and maintained Elekta Neuromag® magnetoencephalography (MEG) and EEG device.• Responsible for electrophysiology data acquisition, processing, and backup from patients with PTSD, depression, and/or traumatic brain injury.• Designed MATLAB programs for processing large data sets including artifact removal, frequency band filtering, power spectrum analysis, and statistical evaluations.• Prepared tables, charts, and figures for presenting statistical data to principal investigators and physicans.• Authored SOPs, technical reviews, and task instructions for research protocols using MEG device.• Provided technical support to and collaborated with physicians and scientists to design task-based paradigms, data collection techniques, and statistical approaches for research protocols.

Bethesda, Maryland

Contractor in support of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD• Operated and maintained custom-built physiology devices used to record physiological responses to pharmacological and signaling compounds in hfRPE and hiPSC-derived RPE.• Designed and performed physiology experiments with hfRPE and hiPSC-derived RPE.• Authored SOP/GLP protocols for operating custom-built physiology devices.• Prepared tables, charts, and figures for presenting statistical data from physiology experiments.• Modified mechanical design of custom-built physiology device to improve accuracy and reproducibility of data collected during physiology experiments.• Modified LabView program for data acquisition by implementing real-time digital filters to reduce signal noise and improve signal-to-noise ratio.

Bethesda, Maryland

Post-Bac IRTA Fellow at the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory in the National Eye Institute. Designed a prototype bioreactor system for long-term culturing of mouse retinal explants. Specialized in human embryonic stem cell culture and mouse retinal tissue dissection/isolation.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Graduate Research Assistant at the Regenerative Medicine Lab at the Department of Geriatric Research. Specialization in Neural Engineering and Tissue Engineering. Designed and constructed a novel neural bioreactor with electrical stimulator for the differentiation of neural crest stem cells into neurons.

Bethesda, Maryland

Summer Research Intern at the Unit on Retinal Neurophysiology at the National Eye Institute. Designed and built a light stimulator used to image light responses in whole-mounted, dark-adapted ground squirrel retinal ganglion cells using two-photon microscopy.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Sensory Electrophysiology Laboratory, Biomaterials Lab and Neuroprosthetics Research Group

Cuban Heritage Collection - Otto G. Richter Library

Juris Doctorate

Master Of Science (Ms), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Biomedical Engineering Society, Society of Women Engineers, Alpha Epsilon Delta, Alpha Eta Mu Beta

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Biomedical Engineering Society, Society of Woman Engineers, Alpha Epsilon Delta