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Nina’s practice focuses on patent and trademark portfolio management, transactional matters, and intellectual property enforcement. As a registered patent attorney with a broad business and technical background, including a degree in chemical engineering, Nina provides practical and solution-driven advice to technology innovators as it relates to product development and emerging technologies, establishing a foundation for success.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Providing trademark clearance opinions and counseling on strategies for brand and product development
Advising clients on overlapping intellectual property rights for new product launches and emerging technologies
Drafting and negotiating contracts including intellectual property protective agreements, technology agreements, trademark licenses and assignments, software licenses, data sharing agreements, nondisclosure agreements, trademark coexistence agreements, corporate partnering agreements, consulting agreements, joint development agreements, vendor agreements, services agreements, patent acquisition agreements, and settlement agreements in various industries
Experience
Providing trademark clearance opinions and counseling on strategies for brand and product development
Advising clients on overlapping intellectual property rights for new product launches and emerging technologies
Drafting and negotiating contracts including intellectual property protective agreements, technology agreements, trademark licenses and assignments, software licenses, data sharing agreements, nondisclosure agreements, trademark coexistence agreements, corporate partnering agreements, consulting agreements, joint development agreements, vendor agreements, services agreements, patent acquisition agreements, and settlement agreements in various industries
Preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark and copyright applications before the USPTO and copyright office
Counseling on European and Asian IP protection strategies
Managing enforcement strategy for U.S. intellectual property portfolio of clients in diverse industries such as information technology and consumer products
Conducting IP and technology due diligence in merger, acquisition, financing, and IPO matters in the software, hardware, pharmaceutical, and consumer products industries
Preparing freedom to operate opinions including analysis of utility patent, design patent, and trade dress rights; preparing patentability opinions and advising clients as to opportunities in various industries; preparing patent invalidity opinions
Assisting semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley with agreements for the development, licensing, procurement and sale of semiconductor intellectual property and products
Assisting with preparation of requests for patent reexamination, now inter partes review; preparing claim amendments and arguments for responses to office actions in inter partes reexamination proceedings
Credentials
Education
Education
- DePaul University College of Law, 2006, J.D.
- Northwestern University, 1996, B.S., Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001, Professional Certificate, Fermentation Technology
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- California
- Illinois
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court - Northern District of Illinois
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Treasurer, Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC), Board of Directors, 2009-2011
- Chair, IPLAC Website Committee, 2011-2013
- Co-Chair, IPLAC Women in IP Committee, 2007-2009
- Co-Chair, IPLAC Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Committee, 2006-2007
- Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers