Wendy Verlander

Wendy Verlander is Managing Partner at Verlander LLP. She has counseled clients in intellectual property for over three decades, working with companies at all stages of development and growth, from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, and in all aspects of patent practice.

She is a seasoned litigator who has successfully litigated cases in federal district and appellate courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Verlander has vast experience in IP transactional work and has negotiated well over 100 patent licenses.

Ms. Verlander has represented clients in a wide range of technologies, including electronics, LEDs, AI, blockchain / cryptocurrency, semiconductors, MEMs, medical devices, wireless communications, mobile devices and applications, networking, navigation, microprocessors, image processing, databases, automotive, electric vehicles and batteries, mechanical devices and processes, and business methods. She also has significant experience with design patents.

She was most recently the founder of Blackbird Technologies, a company with a unique business model aimed at providing individual inventors and small companies a way to effectively monetize their intellectual property through efficiently run in-house teams. By using in-house litigation and licensing expertise, rather than expensive law firms, Blackbird was able to achieve results that equaled or exceeded those of expensive firms, but in an efficient way.

Prior to Blackbird Technologies, Ms. Verlander was a partner at WilmerHale, a global firm renowned for its patent practice. At WilmerHale, she represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases for some of the largest technology companies in the world. Ms. Verlander also counseled emerging and established companies in patent portfolio development and management. While Ms. Verlander was there, WilmerHale was consistently recognized as a top patent litigation firm and received numerous accolades, including “IP Litigation Department of the Year” by the American Lawyer, “Patent Contentious Firm of the Year” by Managing IP, “IP Group of the Year” by IPLaw360, as well as consistent high rankings in legal publications such as Chambers and Partners.

Ms. Verlander has presented and published on many aspects of intellectual property law, has guest lectured at the UPenn School of Engineering and the Wharton School of Business, and is often quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, IP Watchdog, IPLaw360, Managing IP and IAM Media.

Ms. Verlander received a law degree from Columbia University, where she was president of the Society for Law, Science and Technology, as well as a three-year Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, Ms. Verlander was a member of the engineering honor society and president of the MIT chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Ms. Verlander is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars and has represented clients in district courts around the country. She is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the First Circuit, as well as US District Courts for the District of Massachusetts, the Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the Northern District of California. Ms. Verlander has been registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office for over 30 years.