Laura is an intellectual property litigator with a background in engineering and experience in the automotive industry. She focuses her practice on patent litigation and Section 337 cases in the International Trade Commission.
While earning her law degree, Laura served as a legal intern with the US International Trade Commission’s Office of Unfair Import Investigations, where she reviewed complaints, prepared memoranda, and wrote responses to petitions for review and motions in limine. Earlier, as a summer associate in the Massachusetts office of an intellectual property law firm, she researched patentability issues, drafted patent office filings, and assisted with patent due diligence and clearance investigations. She was also a legal intern for the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Low-Income Taxpayer Project. In law school, Laura served as the editor of IDEA®: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property and was a teaching assistant for the Legal Analysis and Writing I and II classes.
Before law school, Laura was a production engineer, and earlier a customer service engineer & quality assurance engineer, at a Michigan-based manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for the automotive industry. Her work at the company included overseeing the testing of new production processes, testing and analysis of battery cells, and managing customer service activities related to the manufacturer’s work with major automobile companies.
As an undergraduate, Laura served as a research assistant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she conducted electrolysis experiments and studied the spatial electric potential resolution for retinal prosthesis microelectrode arrays. While earning her bachelor’s degree at Hope College, she conducted experiments on the breakdown and adsorption of antibiotics to nanoparticles and formatted MAPLE computer programs to study dimensionless vapor pressure equations.
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Trade Secret Thieves, Beware! The DTSA Can Reach You and Your Sales Around the Globe.
July 30, 2024 | Blog | By Michael Renaud, Brad M Scheller , Adam Samansky, Laura Petrasky
This month the Seventh Circuit in Motorola Sols., Inc. v. Hytera Commc’ns Corp. Ltd. upheld the Northern District of Illinois in finding that the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) has extraterritorial reach. Companies can seek relief when misappropriation occurs abroad and for the sales lost abroad when an act in furtherance of the trade secret misappropriation occurs in the United States.
Another Implementer Hold Out Door Closes: The Death of the Anti-Suit Injunction?
February 28, 2024 | Blog | By Daniel Weinger, Andrew DeVoogd, Courtney Herndon, Laura Petrasky
Implementers of standard essential patents (SEPs) continue to hold out in patent licensing discussions with SEP owners, including pursuing the cynical strategy of seeking anti-suit injunctions (ASIs).