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Lois D. Mermelstein

Staff Attorney

Lois Mermelstein focuses her practice on patent matters, including patent prosecution and litigation. She primarily handles inventor meetings, new applications, responses to office actions, and Patent Trial & Appeal Boad appeals, and advises clients on their prosecution strategies.

Lois has extensive experience across a diverse group of technologies, including quantum computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and computer hardware and software.

Capabilities and industries
Regional markets
Community
  • American Bar Association Science & Technology Law Section, chair
  • American Bar Association Business Law Section, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Subcommittee, co-chair
Credentials
Education
  • Washington and Lee University School of Law, JD
  • University of Southern California, MS, Electrical Engineering
  • University of Toronto, BS, Electrical Engineering
Admissions
  • Texas
  • Virginia
Courts / Agencies
  • US Patent & Trademark Office