Lisa is a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience in patent, trademark, and copyright infringement matters, as well as appellate practice. She is adept at litigating patent disputes across a wide range of industries, including industrial manufacturing, medical devices, pharmaceutical technologies, packaging, and computerized systems services. She has also handled cases involving trademark infringement in various industries, as well as copyright infringement relating to books, architectural plans, and choreography.

Prior to practicing law in the private sector, Lisa taught aircraft and spacecraft design as a visiting assistant professor at Purdue University, School of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering. Additionally, while at Purdue University, she implemented outreach efforts as a part of NASA’s Indiana Space Grant Consortium.

Lisa earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University, where she specialized in orbital mechanics, specifically the optimization of transfer trajectories in the elliptic, restricted, three-body problem.

Lisa enjoys running and backpacking. She has finished numerous ultra races including the Sedona Canyons 125-mile race, and she has hiked the John Muir Trail and the Torres del Paine “O-Circuit” and has summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Whitney.

Representative Experience

  • Knauf Insulation v. Johns Manville
    insulation patent infringement and trade secret
  • Scotts Co. v. Lebanon Seaboard
    trademark infringement
  • CleanTech v. Iroquios Bio-Energy Co.
    ethanol plant process patent infringement
  • Johnson & Johnson Interventional Systems v. Cook Incorporated
    medical device patent infringement
  • Meridian Mutual Ins. Co. v. Meridian Ins. Grp. Inc.
    trademark infringement
  • Vantage Group Ltd. v. Switzer
    architectural plans copyright infringement
  • DS Smith (UK) Ltd. v. Parish Mfg., Inc.
    food service device patent infringement
  • ISP.NET, LLC (d/b/a IQuest Internet) v. Qwest Communications Int’l Inc.
    trademark infringement
  • Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc. v. Gregory Hancock Dance Co.
    choreography infringement