• Prepared pleadings and claim charts and assisted with discovery in active and potential lawsuits in Federal Courts throughout the United States• Performed due diligence analysis on potential intellectual property portfolio acquisitions• Assisted with patent and trademark prosecution before the USPTO, including primary drafting responsibilities on a provisional patent application • Assisted with trademark prosecution before the USPTO, including researching and drafting office action responses concerning issues of trademark descriptiveness• Conducted prior art and freedom-to-operate searches utilizing PatFT, AppFT and Patentscope