Kirsten E. Fehlan

Kirsten Fehlan is an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. She has experience handling a broad range of intellectual property litigation matters, including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, for clients in the telecommunications, fiber optics, e-commerce, and software fields. She also has experience handling technology transactions issues related to software development agreements, including the DevOps and Agile frameworks; intellectual property due diligence; intellectual property licensing; non-disclosure agreements covering proprietary information and trade secrets; and open source software licensing and use, for clients in the consumer products, software integration, and banking and Fintech fields.

While in law school, Kirsten completed an externship in the intellectual property department of a large consumer credit reporting company. She also served as a technical patent intern at the USPTO, where she examined TC 3600 business methods patent applications, drafted corresponding Office Actions, and received training on patent examination statutes and examination practices.