Maureen Bumgarner

Maureen has experience in all aspects of intellectual property protection, procurement, and enforcement. Maureen’s litigation experience includes developing infringement/noninfringement and validity/invalidity positions; coordinating discovery compliance; drafting pleadings, motions, and briefs; and taking and defending depositions for both plaintiffs and defendants. Maureen’s prosecution experience includes obtaining patents for clients in the life sciences and chemical arts fields. Maureen’s transactional experience includes assisting clients to acquire and license intellectual property, and performing due diligence and other investigations for clients with intellectual property interests.

While attending law school, Maureen was Student-Editor-in-Chief of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. She also served as judicial intern for Administrative Law Judge Sandra Dee Lord at the International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a law clerk in the Office of Civil Enforcement’s Waste and Chemical Enforcement Division of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and a legal intern in the Office of the Chief Counsel at the Transportation Security Administration in its Procurement Division.

In her spare time, Maureen serves on the Communications Committee for the Board of the Women Lawyers of Charlotte.