Natalie’s representations before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) include:

• Successfully obtaining meaningful utility and design patent protection aimed at covering potential infringers. In one exemplary case, Natalie prosecuted a utility patent while navigating the USPTO’s prioritized prosecution procedures and obtained valuable patent protection before the prioritized status ended. In parallel, she also successfully filed and prosecuted a series of design patent applications to provide a differing scope of patent protection aimed at covering the competitor’s product.
• Initiating a reissue design patent application to broaden a food products and packaging client’s patent protection. This application is the result of Natalie’s proposing solutions to improve the strength of the new client’s pre-existing patent portfolio.
• Successfully defending an ex parte reexamination challenge to an apparel industry client’s patent. Natalie analyzed art brought forward by a third party challenger and successfully identified the differences between the prior art and the patented claims.