Melissa Silverstein

Melissa Silverstein is Senior IP Counsel and Executive Recovery Coach with The Healed Professional. She works with individuals and organizations to integrate recovery-informed principles into high-performance environments and modernize conversations around substance use and sobriety in the legal profession.

Previously, Melissa was Senior Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Brand Protection at Helen of Troy, a publicly-trade consumer goods company with brands such as OXO, Hydro Flask, Osprey, PUR, Vicks, Honeywell, Drybar, Revlon, and Hot Tools. Melissa manages Helen of Troy’s patent and trademark portfolios, along with the company’s brand protection and enforcement initiatives.

Melissa is a registered patent lawyer with 15+ years of experience in intellectual property law and technology commercialization in both academic technology transfer and private practice. As former Director of the University of Texas at El Paso’s Office of Technology Commercialization, she managed UTEP’s patent portfolio, including protecting, marketing, and licensing UTEP’s inventions.

Prior to joining UTEP, she practiced as a patent lawyer with a boutique intellectual property law firm, where she drafted and prosecuted patent applications for clients including Honeywell, Xerox, IBM, Clear Channel, Los Alamos National Labs, Fermilab, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Melissa drafted and prosecuted patents in diverse technology areas in the chemical, biological, nanotechnology, mechanical, electrical, computer hardware and software realms.  She is a native El Pasoan and a big fan of cooking, hanging with her kids, yoga, traveling, and chasing counterfeiters all around the globe!