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Overview

Sarah supports both multinational corporations and individual inventors as they develop and execute patent portfolio strategies.

Sarah drafts and prosecutes domestic and international patents, often working with clients who are seeking to protect their innovations on a global scale. While she is particularly experienced with wireless technologies, optics, software, and semiconductors, she works with a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, satellite systems, computer systems, and electronics, and represents a diverse clientele across a variety of industries. Sarah also has extensive experience securing standard essential patents and is well-versed in the sophisticated level of detail these require.

A former physics student, Sarah had always loved science but enrolled in law school when she found herself more drawn to theory than laboratory work. She thrives on investigating, supporting, and protecting new technologies, and she describes her favorite part of her role as simply helping inventors take early ideas and flesh them out into patentable innovations. While Sarah primarily represents major multinational corporations, she also assists smaller companies and individual entrepreneurs as they look to scale their patent portfolios.

Clients value Sarah’s quick mind and ability to rapidly grasp their technologies. However, she is perhaps best known not only for her own understanding, but for helping clients understand. Sarah knows that the patent process is complex and sometimes foreign to the engineers and inventors looking to patent their work, and she has a gift for explaining exactly what to expect and when, guiding clients through every step of prosecution.

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Education

  • J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law
    • Dean’s Scholar
  • B.S., Binghamton University
    • magna cum laude
  • A.S., State University of New York at Cobleskill
    • College of Agriculture and Technology
    • summa cum laude

Admissions

  • Colorado
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Languages

  • Farsi, conversational


*Contact Sarah to set up an in-person consultation by appointment in the Denver office.
Experience
  • Handled domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution in optics, wireless technologies, electrical technologies, medical devices, integrated circuits, satellite systems, video coding, sensors, graphical user interfaces, avionics, data compression, networks, near field communications, and computer technologies.
  • Performed extensive work on standards-essential patents, including drafting and review of claim charts on standards.
  • Directly counseled in-house clients and inventors to support and scale their patent portfolios.
Outside the Office

Sarah absolutely loves the outdoors, especially rock climbing, and she is a certified rock climbing guide. She also enjoys ice climbing, canyoneering, and scuba diving and holds certifications for technical and cave diving.

In addition, Sarah is highly active as a volunteer for mountaineering organizations. She serves as a field responder for the mountain search and rescue team of Boulder County in Colorado, Rocky Mountain Rescue Group. She loves the deeply rewarding work of finding and rescuing lost and injured hikers, climbers, and other outdoor recreationalists. Sarah also serves on the board of a nonprofit founded by a friend to analyze and rate avalanche terrain, helping climbers understand avalanche risk in certain areas.

When she needs to rest, Sarah enjoys reading non-fiction on whatever topic interests her in the moment, as well as science fiction and fantasy. She also does embroidery, plays guitar, and is currently learning watercolor painting.

Community Leadership

Sarah has volunteered with Rocky Mountain Rescue Group since 2014, responding to rescues in wilderness areas inaccessible by ambulance, including vertical evacuations of climbers and helping injured or lost hikers, skiers, and anyone else who may run into trouble in the outdoors. In addition to her work as an active field responder, she is also a member of the executive board and manages the organization’s trademarks, insurance policies, various accounts, and their worker’s compensation policy.

Sarah also serves on the board of Climb Avy Aware, an organization that seeks to determine avalanche terrain ratings using the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale for Colorado’s many ice climbs.