Malissa focuses on identifying, procuring and enforcing the intellectual property rights of clients.
Malissa’s experience includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications, counseling clients on intellectual property matters, performing due diligence on patent assets, managing global patent portfolios, handling appeals before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) and evaluating freedom-to-operate, invalidity and infringement positions.
Malissa has an extensive background working with clients in the chemical industry. Her patent experience includes films and coatings as well as chemical compositions. Examples include cosmetic and skincare compositions, pharmaceuticals and related methods of treatment, low-emissivity and solar-control coatings, electrode coatings and thin film deposition.
Malissa’s patent experience also includes other technology areas, including mechanical technologies, medical devices, medical diagnostics, optics, semiconductors and biotechnology. For example, Malissa has done patent work involving aircrafts, solar cells, surgical blankets, food preparation equipment and HVAC assemblies.
Prior to joining Fredrikson, Malissa practiced as a patent attorney at a boutique law firm in Connecticut. Additionally, during law school, she was a judicial intern for the Honorable Andrea Masley in the Bronx Family Court and a research assistant to Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernández.
