ABOUT
Jennifer Meredith
Managing Member, Patent Intelligence Group LLC. Registered Patent Attorney.
Jennifer Meredith is a registered patent attorney with 25 years of patent practice. She founded Patent Intelligence Group to handle the most specialized patent work: formal infringement, non-infringement, and validity opinions, prior art and prosecution history analysis, and complex file histories that litigation teams do not have time to dig through.
Practice focus
Experience
Before founding Patent Intelligence Group, Jennifer was a partner at Meredith Attorneys, PLLC (formerly Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC), a patent prosecution and litigation firm in New York, from 2003 to 2024. From 2007 to 2022 she was also Of Counsel at Lippes Mathias LLP, a firm of more than 200 attorneys, where she handled the firm's patent prosecution practice and worked with its litigation teams on file-history estoppel, disclaimer, and claim scope in PTAB and district court matters.
Over that time she drafted and prosecuted more than 1,000 patent applications, including provisional, utility, design, and PCT applications; wrote non-infringement and invalidity opinions for clients including Fortune 100 companies; and managed hundreds of trademark applications and trademark disputes.
She began her career as a patent associate in the University at Buffalo's technology transfer and licensing office, conducting more than one hundred patent searches and advising on the patentability of university inventions.
PTAB experience
Jennifer has defended multiple inter partes review and covered business method review petitions that ended in denial of institution, drafted IPR petitions and preliminary responses, and argued in person before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. She has also handled ex parte reexaminations. That experience is why she reads a contested file record the way the Board and the courts will.
Why complex file histories
When a patent has continuations, an ex parte reexamination, or a prior IPR, the answer to an infringement or validity question is often in the record rather than on the face of the patent. Litigators should litigate. Jennifer takes on the file-record and prior art review, so counsel can stay focused on the case.
The issued patent is the end of the story, not the whole story.
Selected experience
- Patent counsel to a global industrial technology company
- Patent counsel to a publicly traded building-products manufacturer, including ventilation products
- IP counsel to a technology-driven digital content marketplace before and through its initial public offering
- Defense of IPR and CBM petitions resulting in denial of institution
- Prior art analysis supporting invalidity positions in district court patent litigation
- Infringement, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions for Fortune 100 companies
Client identities are confidential. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Technologies
Medical devices, software, semiconductors, industrial and mechanical products, aerospace and defense, building products, and consumer products.
Credentials
Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2001
Bar admissions: New York; Texas
Federal courts: S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., N.D.N.Y., W.D.N.Y.
J.D., University at Buffalo School of Law, 2001; Articles Editor, Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal
B.S., Civil Engineering, Lafayette College, 1997
Writing
Jennifer writes on patent opinions, prosecution history, and patent strategy. Read her articles in Insights.​
Discuss your matter
Every engagement is handled personally. The person you speak with is the person doing the analysis.