Mary Dahl

Mary Dahl

Associate
About

Mary is a patent litigator with experience practicing in federal district courts across the country, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mary leverages her strong technical background to assist clients in cases covering a broad range of technologies, including cybersecurity software, light-emitting diodes, mobile phones and computing devices, oil drilling equipment, hairstyle devices, and hard drive disk suspension assemblies. Mary recently argued before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on behalf of the petitioner in two inter-partes review proceedings, both of which resulted in the invalidation of all challenged claims.

She received her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she received the Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize for her work at the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, and Gerald Gunther Prizes for Outstanding Performance in Property and Copyright. She received a bachelor of science in civil engineering from MIT.

Bar admissionsCalifornia

EXPERIENCE

  • Representing plaintiff in a 10-patent suit against a competitor involving technology related to hard disk drive suspension assemblies
  • Representing patent owner in a competitor suit relating to hairstyling device
  • Representing Fortune 50 retailer in a 9-patent case involving light-emitting diode (LED) products in both district court and related inter-partes review and post-grant review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Education
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • J.D., Stanford Law School

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Phone

+1 650 833 2146
(Work, Silicon Valley)