
Practice Areas & Industries
Computer software
Healthcare and Medical
Transportation
Mechanical, Chemical & industrial technologies
Audio/Visual computing
Research Institutions
About
Melanie Grover is a Principal at Brake, Hughes, Bellermann LLP. Ms. Grover’s practice focuses on strategic patent prosecution, client counseling, and opinions in a range of technical areas including artificial intelligence, consumer software, database technology and index design, security, blockchain, smart devices, natural language processing, enterprise systems, big data analytics, material sciences, aviation, and medical software. Ms. Grover has provided companies with opinions on patentability, infringement, and the applicability of industry standards. Ms. Grover has experience managing large, international patent portfolios and assisting general counsel with patent matters.
Before joining Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP, Ms. Grover worked as an associate for Finnegan LLP for three years in the areas of patent prosecution, client counseling, and litigation. Prior to entering law school, Ms. Grover accumulated several years of experience as a software engineer for mainframe, client-server, and web-based environments in various industries including banking and finance, education, and health care.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2008
- Received the Leon Robbin Patent Award, 2008
- Brigham Young University, B.S., Computer Science, 1991
Bar and Court Admissions
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Other
- Contributing author for the ABA Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2010, March 14, 2011.
- Member of the Virginia Bar Association
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