Regina provides intellectual property advice to a broad range of clients, with particular focus on portfolio management and defensive strategies for litigation avoidance.
Regina has extensive experience in guiding client product designs to avoid potential patent infringement, by analyzing competitor portfolios and providing advice, including freedom-to-operate and enforceability opinions. She also works with clients to develop effective portfolio management strategies for securing patents related to existing client products as well as exploratory technology areas. A significant component of her practice also includes assisting clients with assessing infringement claims by practicing and non-practicing entities (NPEs) and developing counter-claims to provide leverage in licensing negotiations. Regina also collaborates with partners in the firm’s Private Equity group to support strategic and private equity acquisitions, including evaluating the risks posed by third-party intellectual property rights.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Regina worked for four years as a patent agent in the firm’s Intellectual Property group, protecting intellectual property related to medical devices, including medical implants and injection syringes, computer network technologies and storage devices, data compression and error control coding, and language processing systems. Before joining the firm, she worked as an information technology consultant, a software engineer, and a computer systems architect.
- Spent eight months on secondment as in-house IP Counsel to a major medical device company, devising defensive strategies for several products, and working closely with engineering design teams to create designs respecting those strategies, and to secure patent rights.
- Advising an embryonic startup company on growing a defensive patent portfolio and on litigation avoidance
- Wrote and prosecuted several patent applications for BBN Technologies, growing a diverse portfolio that was subsequently acquired by Raytheon.
- Represented a multi-billion-dollar global provider of healthcare products in connection with various development and supply agreements.
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Education
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JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2010
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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
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BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002; Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi
Bar Admissions
- New York, 2011
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Massachusetts, 2010
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