Representative Experience
- Regularly advises clients on preparation and prosecution of patents, developing patent validity and infringement opinions, and enforcing patent rights including licensing, patent infringement litigation and patent reexamination
- Assists clients with auditing intellectual property assets and aligning their intellectual property strategies with their overall business strategies
- Preparation of patent applications and responses to communications received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Advises clients with regard to intellectual property issues
- Regularly performs legal and technical research
- Extensive experience drafting claim constructions, opinions, orders, motions, judgments and memoranda as a clerk in United States District Court
Education
- University of Pittsburgh, B.S. in Physics, 2005
- Duquesne University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2008
Admissions
- Pennsylvania State Bar
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Affiliations
- Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Allegheny County Bar Association, Hispanic Attorneys Committee
Work History
- Law Clerk for United States District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose, 2008
- Law Clerk for United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2009-2010
Other
- Allegheny County Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division Bar Leadership Initiative Class of 2010-2011
- American Inns of Court – Pittsburgh Chapter, member, 2008-present
- Community Outreach Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, member, 2010
- American Bar Association and the Bureau of National Affairs Awards for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property and Excellence in the Study of Employment Law, 2008
- Cali Excellence for the Future Award for the Highest Grade in: Secured Transactions, 2007; Intellectual Property Trademark and Copyright Law, 2008; Employment Discrimination, 2008