About
Heather Slotnick has over twenty years of experience running collaboratively with customers to expand excessive first-class highbrow assets (IP) portfolios while decreasing prison dangers. Drawing on her past in-residence reviews, Heather brings an entrepreneurial, client-facet angle to the offerings of defensive IP rights. She is extra than a legal professional presenting criminal answers due to the fact Heather works with clients to increase a plan to reap IP dreams which might be in step with their commercial enterprise goals. Heather also assists with negotiating and getting ready agreements, IP analysis (along with opinion letters and freedom-to-operate initiatives) and IP due diligence.
Prior to founding MLO, Heather was Associate Chief IP Counsel at Siemens Corporation in which she treated complicated IP problems and controlled patent lawyers and group of workers in Siemens’ West Coast Office. She obtained vast felony enjoy together with leading patent license negotiations, coping with due diligence subjects (for both acquisitions and undertaking capital investments), providing IP portfolio approach and overseeing IP prosecution efforts. Her number one technical regions covered telecommunications, semiconductor devices, scientific structures and software.
Heather started her criminal career at Townsend and Townsend as a member of the Electrical and Electronics Patent Prosecution Group. While at Townsend, she specialised in drafting patent packages, carrying out Examiner Interviews and supporting with huge patent cross license negotiations.
Heather holds a Bachelor of Science diploma in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Management (Cum Laude) from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Heather is a member of the California State Bar and registered to exercise with america Patent and Trademark Office.
Heather helps her local community by way of being (i) a member of the Excellerators Cabinet for Salk Institute and (ii) a mentor for StartR Inclusion at UCSD.
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