Intellectual Property Partner
CurrentMy passion is helping clients carve out and protect niches for their innovations moving to market. Through strategic planning in patents, trademarks and trade secrets, I partner with clients to identify and work around potential barriers to market entry and to secure protection for their intellectual property assets.My experience includes preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent and trademark applications, with a focus on achieving clients’ goals. I have extensive experience in patentability and infringement analyses and opinions, patent and trademark licensing, and client counseling relating to retaining and transferring intellectual property rights. I assist clients in introducing new products and services to their respective marketplaces in the U.S. and abroad through strategic counseling, state-of-the-art searching, design around strategies and opinions.My technical experience spans a wide variety of industries, including industrial and food packaging including packaging system and processes, paper and polymer-based materials and closures, construction materials including heavy equipment, tools, consumables, chemicals, and cable and wire systems, electrical, mechanical and electro-mechanical printing and marking systems, protective and lighting systems, adhesive application systems, molding systems, industrial chemical compositions including adhesives, lubricants and masking agents, chemical process systems, medical products and devices, textiles, automotive products, sporting goods, entertainment and novelty devices, piping and structural attachments, and radioactive and other chemical processes.Prior my legal career, I was a licensed professional engineer (inactive) and an engineering manager with a large, multinational engineering consulting firm specializing in piping system flow analyses, piping system failure prediction, and radioactive waste processing and disposal.
