Charlena Thorpe
Incorporating Innovation: Protecting and Building Businesses Around Ideas
After over ten years working at large and mid-size patent-specialty and general practice law firms, Charlena Thorpe formed her own practice to provide quality patent law and related IP services to clients in a responsive, flexible, and cost-effective manner.
Charlena Thorpe has extensive patent drafting, patent procurement, and patent litigation experience. Charlena also has significant experience preparing opinions on matters such as patentability, infringement, validity, and essentiality.
Charlena Thorpe's legal education and legal experience is complemented with an exceptional technical education at a top-ranked engineering school and industry experience at Fortune 500 companies and nationally-recognized research institutions.
- Emory University
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Dean's Public Service Award Recipient
- Activities: Intellectual Property Society, President (1997-2000)
- University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology
- M.S. | Electrical Engineering
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- Honors: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; Georgia Tech President's Fellow.
- University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology
- B.S. | Electrical Engineering
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- Honors: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (High Honors); Tau Beta Pi National Honor Society; Eta Kappa Nu National Electrical Engineering Honor Society; Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Certified; Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities
- Member
- Georgia State Bar
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- Patent Obviousness in the Wake of KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
- American Bar Association
- Extrinsic Evidence in a Post-Phillips World
- West Legalworks
- Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 Signed Into Law
- Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal
- Securing Legal Protection for the Innovations of Start-Up & Small Companies
- MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta
- Registered Patent Attorney
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Duluth
- Georgia
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
- Website
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