Ms. Mewes' practice focuses on patent litigation and appeals. She has experience in a variety of technological fields, principally relating to bioscience and computer technologies. Ms. Mewes has represented technology companies and universities in high stakes patent litigation. For example, she served as second chair on a team that successfully enforced university patents covering award-winning personalized medicine products. She has also defeated numerous suits against her clients brought by patent trolls in the Eastern District of Texas and elsewhere. In addition, Ms. Mewes has prosecuted and won appeals on behalf of her clients in the Federal Circuit, including for example The Regents of the University of California v. Dako, 517 F.3d 1364 (Fed. Cir. 2008) and Hewlett-Packard v. Acceleron, 587 F.3d 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2009).
Ms. Mewes is active in the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Ms. Mewes clerked for the Honorable William C. Bryson, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and is admitted to practice in that court, as well as all federal courts in California and the Eastern District of Texas.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D., Order of the Coif, 1999
Georgetown University, B.S., in foreign service, Phi Beta Kappa, 1996
