Top best Intellectual Property Lawyers Near me in ZIP 20006

Melissa specializes in intellectual property and technology with a focus on trademark law. She offers strategic counseling in identifying and protecting valuable intellectual property assets and maximizing their value through development, licensing, commercial distribution, and protection to promote and maintain brand recognition. Her practice includes filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register trademarks in the U.S. and abroad, as well as trademark enforcement to protect valuable marks against infringers and in defending clients against infringement claims.

I have over fourteen years of experience in intellectual property law beginning as a Patent Examiner examining biotechnology patent applications with a focus on molecular biology, microbiology, genetically engineered plants and plant genes in art unit 1638.  Post Patent Office experience has included preparing and prosecuting patent applications in a wide variety of technologies; patent portfolio management; patent portfolio analysis; merger and acquisition due diligence; managing due diligence projects; infringement and validity studies; freedom to operate studies; licensing; drafting material transfer and confidentiality agreements; preparing litigation strategies; managing litigation teams; drafting motions in both litigation and interference proceedings; drafting briefs in support of motions; deposition practice; discovery practice; legal research; training junior attorneys; and client relations and management responsibilities.  Further experience includes research assistant positions both in a cutting edge molecular genetics lab and a university affiliated environmental lab.

I am a registered U.S. patent attorney and a member of Dentons’ Intellectual Property and Technology Practice.. Working with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies, my practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent preparation and prosecution; patent and trade-secret litigation; IP due diligence, clearance and landscape analysis; post grant proceedings; and licensing. My practice has a particular emphasis on patent portfolio development, including invention harvesting and patent filing strategies. With a business-first approach, I have prepared, prosecuted, and managed hundreds of U.S. and foreign patent applications for clients involving a broad range of technologies in fields such as automotive design, robotics, computer hardware and software, refrigeration, air conditioning, mobile payments, gaming, sporting equipment, and medical devices. I work closely with clients to craft strategies for helping them avoid disputes altogether.. I have significant litigation experience both enforcing patent rights and defending against patent infringement claims. For over 10 years, I have been representing individuals and companies across a broad range of technologies in patent disputes before the ITC, in district court, and at the PTAB. I also regularly handle other IP and technology related disputes, including trade-secret disputes, domain name hijacking, trademark/trade dress infringement, and administrative proceedings before the TTAB.. While attending law school, I served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley of the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (now on the Federal Circuit). Before attending law school, I worked as a project engineer at Applied Safety & Ergonomics, Inc., a forensic engineering consulting firm specializing in ergonomics and human factors, where I analyzed product designs and designed/evaluated safety.

I am the owner of the Law Office of Chun T. Wright.  My firm focuses on intellectual property enforcement (anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting), copyright and trademark law, Internet and technology issues, adventure travel law and litigation.  I represent individuals and companies of all sizes, both domestic and international.  I am also Of Counsel to Reid Collins & Tsai LLP ("RCT"), which focuses on complex commercial financial litigation.  In this role, I am able to combine my intellectual property experience with RCT’s complex financial litigation experience to assist clients in combating counterfeiting and piracy at the highest levels.. Previously, I was an in-house attorney with the U.S. trade association for video and computer game publishers and a litigator at major law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I am also a former federal prosecutor with extensive trial experience.