Ginger represents clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). By quickly grasping complex, cutting-edge technological concepts and advising clients on patenting procedures, Ginger helps clients obtain valuable intellectual property assets.
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Ginger helps clients pursue patents primarily for medical devices and treatments, cryptography products and processes, electronic products and infrastructure, and mechanical products. As a patent agent, Ginger is an engineer by education and a legal professional by training, with a specific licensure by the USPTO to serve as a legal representative to clients in all facets related to preparing and filing patent applications. Common questions that Ginger addresses posed by clients relate to the ability to obtain a patent, value of a patent if obtained, process for obtaining a patent, cost for obtaining and maintaining a patent, and scope of existing patents in the field of interest.
Ginger focuses on representing clients with technically complex scientific, mathematical, and/or engineering innovations. With a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, seven years of industry experience investigating product safety issues, and a background and passion for teaching, she energetically dives deep into the technical issues to extract the key inventive concepts and then lays out the concepts in a patent application in a way that is understandable to the USPTO, potential competitors, and potential licensees and that also provides value by capturing the inventive concepts in the patent claims.
Prior to becoming a patent agent, Ginger worked for seven years as an engineer investigating product-safety issues on consumer products, vehicles, and electrical infrastructure. In that role, Ginger provided expert witness opinions in product liability matters, testifying in four depositions and two trials and authoring numerous expert reports. She completed her doctoral research at Purdue University, designing and fabricating high-voltage semiconductor devices and developing course curriculum for semiconductor devices.