Jennifer practices in the areas of patent litigation and prosecution. Her experience in pre-trial phases of patent litigation includes discovery, summary judgment motions, claim construction (Markman) motions, and related hearings. Jennifer's defense work includes preparing complex requests for reexamination of patents as an optional means for attacking invalid patents. She also is particularly knowledgeable about oppositions of European patents and has participated in opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany.
Jennifer's prosecution experience includes preparing and prosecuting numerous patent applications in the computer software, electrical, and mechanical arts. She also has extensive experience in registering copyrights. Jennifer has counseled many clients about infringement, invalidity, and licensing of their patents, and has negotiated and drafted license agreements, prepared invalidity, non-infringement, and freedom to operate opinions, and negotiated settlements of various types of intellectual property disputes.
Jennifer is a former adjunct professor of patent law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law and a former mathematics instructor at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She is also a frequent speaker and writer on intellectual property issues.
- LEGAL EDUCATION
- University of Missouri - Columbia, J.D., 2001
- UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
- University of Tennessee at Martin, B.S.
Mathematics, magna cum laude, 1998 - University of Missouri - Columbia, 2001-2002,
concentration in Physics - MEMBERSHIPS
- American Bar Association
- Missouri Bar Association
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- BAR ADMISSIONS
- Tennessee, 2001
- Missouri, 2002
- Kansas, 2007
- U.S. District Court, Western District of
Missouri, 2002 - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2003
- U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, 2005
