Tracy specializes in foreign and domestic chemical patent preparation and prosecution, biological patent preparation and prosecution, preparing patentability and non-infringement opinions, negotiation and preparation of licensing and development agreements, and trademark application preparation and prosecution.

Tracy was introduced to patent law when she took a course in law school and earned the highest grade in the class. Her professor, a partner in a Des Moines, Iowa, IP firm, encouraged her to get involved in patent law. Following his advice, she took more patent law classes and, upon graduation, she sat for the patent bar and joined Hovey Williams.

LEGAL EDUCATION

Drake University Law School, J.D., 1997,
      with high honors

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

University of Missouri – Rolla, B.S. Chemistry,
      with an emphasis in Biochemistry, 1993

MEMBERSHIPS

Missouri Bar

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association –
    Board of Directors, 2008

Association for Women Lawyers of Greater
    Kansas City – Board of Directors, past President

Sheffield Place (Transitional living and training
    facility for single women with children) –
    Board of Directors, 2005-2007

Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance
    (LEAP) – Board of Directors, 2007-2008

BAR ADMISSIONS

Missouri, 1997

U.S. District Court, Western District
    of Missouri, 1997

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998

AWARDS AND HONORS

Best of the Bar, Intellectual Property Law, 2005
    and 2007 (as voted by Kansas City-area
    attorneys) Kansas City Business Journal's
    Women Who Mean Business Award, 2007

Association for Women Lawyers, President's
    Award, 2005