Sarah represents clients in all aspects of commercial litigation specializing in intellectual property and business disputes. She handles complex cases involving technologies in a wide range of industries including oil and gas, wireless, automobile, medical devices and consumer products.
Sarah represents clients in both federal and state trial courts across the country. She also handles appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition to trial and appeal work, Sarah handles inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent Office. In addition to her trial and appeal-related work, Sarah regularly advises clients on intellectual property-related licensing and other strategic issues.
Prior to law school, Sarah was an engineer in the natural gas industry.
Honors & Recognitions
Best Lawyers of America, Litigation - Intellectual Property
Practice Areas
Credentials
Education
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2006
Order of the Barristers
Mock Trial, Business and Tax Law Journal
B.E. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, cum laude, 2001
Admissions
Texas
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
Experience
- Obtained reversal of Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Obtained multiple Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions in trademark infringement actions in federal and state court.
- Defeated Application for Preliminary Injunction in defense of trade secret misappropriation claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Obtained complete walk-away settlement after years of litigation and multi-million-dollar damages claims on behalf of leading fitness equipment supplier in defense of trade secret misappropriation and trade dress infringement claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Defeated motion for preliminary injunction seeking to prevent retail chain from opening a California business location in a trade dress and trademark infringement suit in the C.D.Cal.
- Obtained a stay of federal court litigation and invalidation of patent claims in defense of patent infringement claims against leading firearms optics manufacturer in the in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented leading international retail and wholesale jewelry brand in defense of trademark infringement claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented oil and gas frac plug manufacturer in the defense of trade secret misappropriation claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented nutritional supplement brand in defense of trademark infringement claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented athletic clothing brand in defense of trade dress infringement claims in the D.Co. and S.D.Tex.
- Represented retail food chain in defense of trademark infringement claims and trademark registrability dispute in the C.D.Cal, E.D.NY, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
- Defended copyright infringement claims in the D.N.M.
- Represented alcohol-free spirits brand in defense of trademark infringement claims in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented retail brand in defense of trademark infringement claims in the W.D.NY.
- Defense of trade secret misappropriation claims Montgomery County, TX.
- Represented patent owner in enforcement of medical device patents in the E.D. Tex. and D. Mn.
- Represented patent owner in enforcement of security system patents in the E.D. Tex.
- Represented patent owner in enforcement of anti-theft patents in the E.D. Tex.
- Represented accused infringer of oil and gas drilling and production technology patents in the E.D. Tex.
- Represented patent owner in enforcement of an oil and gas drilling tool patent in the E.D. Tex.
- Represented accused infringer of oil and gas drilling tool patents in the S.D.Tex.
- Represented accused infringer of drilling fluids processing patents in the W.D. Tex.
- Represented trademark, trade dress, and copyright owner in enforcement of jewelry design in the W.D. Tex.
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Affiliations
Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
Nancy F. Atlas Inn of Court, President-Elect June 2025-2026
Association of Women Attorneys
Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
