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Marina Portnova is a registered patent attorney and a member of Lowenstein Sandler’s Tech Group in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Marina focuses on intellectual property protection in computer architecture, software, networking, communications, image processing, and business methods. She provides clients a broad range of patent-related services, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications (U.S. and foreign), patent validity and infringement analysis and opinions, IP due diligence work, IP licensing, and strategic IP counseling.
Marina has extensive experience in securing patents for clients ranging from industry leaders to startups and assists them in building and managing their patent portfolios, including identifying technical advantages and implementing programs that capture these advantages as patents.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Marina worked as a software developer.
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Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis
(J.D., 1999),
- Articles Editor, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review;
- Recipient, Henry B. Blackwell II Prize for authoring the publication "Ownership and Enforcement of Patent Rights in Russia: Protecting an Invention in the Existing Environment," Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1998;
- Recipient, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers First Prize in the Nathan Burkan Copyright Law Writing Competition
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Central Institute of Patent Law, St. Petersburg, Russia
(Degree in Russian Patent Law, 1990)
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Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
(M.S.),
Engineering
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Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
(B.S.),
Computer Science
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California
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
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U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
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