Boston
Builds and targets patent portfolios for medical and consumer technology companies to support their commercial objectives and withstand scrutiny in litigation
Advises on due diligence, freedom-to-operate, and patent risk assessments in a highly active and competitive space
Prepares clients for patent disputes, including UPC actions, and provides invalidity and noninfringement opinions
Brings substantial technical experience in medical devices, robotics, AI, computer-assisted medical solutions, and bioinformatics
Ashley Brzezinski, PhD, provides medical and consumer technology companies with strategic intellectual property counsel, helping them build, protect, transact, and defend the patent assets that drive their business. She designs and targets client portfolios to support commercial objectives and to withstand scrutiny in litigation and works closely with prosecution, transactional, and litigation teams to deliver coordinated, commercially focused guidance.
Ashley has extensive experience with medical and consumer technologies, advising clients on portfolio strategy, due diligence, freedom-to-operate and patent risk assessments, and disputes in this highly active and competitive space. Her technology experience includes medical devices, consumer devices, medical and consumer vaporizers, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), computer-assisted medical solutions, and bioinformatics.
Ashley also helps clients navigate disputes. She prepares them for litigation by building portfolios in anticipation of enforcement and defense, supports them in Unified Patent Court (UPC) actions, and provides invalidity and noninfringement opinions.
Ashley earned her BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, with research in optical tomography and inverse imaging problems and in communications topics such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and ultra-wideband. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she developed computational algorithms to aid the diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases and related disorders.
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- Advised a digital therapeutics company in its acquisition of a UK virtual reality company focused on utilizing digital therapeutics for anxiety, pain management and maternal health
- Advised a Swedish global investment firm on its €2.8 billion acquisition of a global provider of mission critical biopharma transport services*
- Advised a large SPAC in its $1.1 billion SPAC formation and acquisition of a manufacturer of robotic surgical tools*
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Intellectual Property, 2023-2026
- Super Lawyers, Massachusetts Rising Star, 2023-2025
- First place, Boston Patent Law Association’s Annual Writing Competition, 2016
- Massachusetts State Bar, member
- Boston University School of Law, JD
- Northeastern University, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Northeastern University, MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Fairleigh Dickinson University, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Massachusetts
- New York
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- English
