Suzanne Konrad

Suzanne Konrad is Of Counsel at Spencer Fane LLP. A registered attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Suzanne Konrad focuses her practice on patent prosecution and litigation, helping clients create thoughtful and effective strategies to both protect and maximize the value of marketable products and services. She applies her technical training and professional background in chemical engineering to assist clients in securing and defending intellectual property rights in highly sophisticated areas of business.

Suzanne has successfully prosecuted U.S. and international patent applications involving batteries, phase separation technologies such as distillation columns, mechanical systems, semiconductor devices and display technologies. Her prosecution work includes drafting patent applications, responding to office actions, drafting pre-appeal and appeal briefs, conducting oral arguments before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, managing reexamination proceedings from initiation through appeal, and managing foreign counsel in strategically obtaining international patent rights.

In addition to her prosecution practice, Suzanne can handle all phases of patent litigation, including fact and expert discovery, motion practice, and claim construction. She played a key role in two victories before the Patent Trial Appeal Board and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, defending the validity of client patents challenged in inter partes reexaminations. Suzanne also helped secure claim construction victory in the Eastern District of Texas and successfully opposed two motions for reconsideration on the claim construction issue.