Sarah represents clients in all aspects of commercial litigation specializing in intellectual property and business disputes. She handles complex cases involving technologies in a wide range of industries including oil and gas, wireless, automobile, medical devices and consumer products.

Sarah represents clients in both federal and state trial courts across the country. She also handles appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition to trial and appeal work, Sarah handles inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent Office. In addition to her trial and appeal-related work, Sarah regularly advises clients on intellectual property-related licensing and other strategic issues.

Prior to law school, Sarah was an engineer in the natural gas industry.

  • Nancy Atlas American Inn of Court

Credentials

Education

J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2006

Order of the Barristers
Mock Trial, Business and Tax Law Journal

B.E. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, cum laude, 2001

Admissions

Texas
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas

Experience

  • Regularly represents trademark owners in enforcement actions against accused infringers and represents accused infringers in trademark enforcement actions in both state and federal courts.
  • Represented patent owner in enforcement of medical device patents in the E.D. Tex. and D. Mn.
  • Represented patent owner in enforcement of security system patents in the E.D. Tex.
  • Represented patent owner in enforcement of anti-theft patents in the E.D. Tex.
  • Represented accused infringer of oil and gas drilling and production technology patents in the E.D. Tex.
  • Represented patent owner in enforcement of an oil and gas drilling tool patent in the E.D. Tex.
  • Represented accused infringer of oil and gas drilling tool patents in the S.D.Tex.
  • Represented accused infringer of drilling fluids processing patents in the W.D. Tex.
  • Represented defendant in trade secret dispute in Montgomery County, TX
  • Represented third-party employee in trade secret dispute in Montgomery County, TX
  • Represented trademark, trade dress, and copyright owner in enforcement of jewelry design in the W.D. Tex.
  • Defense of medical device patents in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Defense of medical device patents in an appeal of Inter Partes Review proceedings in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Defense of data handling patents in an appeal of Inter Partes Review proceedings in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Representation of patent owner in evaluation of enforcement options for portfolio of offshore platform patents

Newsroom

Speaking Engagements

Affiliations

Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

Nancy F. Atlas Inn of Court

Association of Women Attorneys

Houston Intellectual Property Law Association