Seema  Mehta

Seema Mehta’s practice includes foreign and domestic trademark prosecution and worldwide patent procurement and enforcement, including appeals practice, post-grant proceedings at the USPTO, validity and infringement opinions, IP counseling, IP litigation, and management of IP portfolios in the field of electronics, mechanics, optics, physics, telecommunications, and software, including machine learning and AI applications.

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Mrs. Mehta has extensive experience in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in a variety of fields, including: file systems, operating systems, financial management applications, mobile phone applications, trusted execution environment operation, 4G LTE networking for mobile/smart phones, Internet-of-Things technology, web-based applications, graphical user interfaces, information security, camera and radar systems for automobiles, vehicle alternators, windshield wipers, human-device interaction, sensor and lock set devices for vehicles, plastic bottle manufacturing and design, and oil and gas technology, including drilling tools, software for drilling applications. 

Her work at Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton (OBWB) further involves working with small and medium enterprises (SMEs), clients with specific commercially-viable technology such as medical devices for endoscopy using microscopy, tracking of physical assets using sensors, satellite systems, and liquid lens technology for optical systems.  Her foreign practice includes preparation and prosecution of both patent and trademark applications in the area of securing and anti-counterfeiting of identification documents, IoT technology, cryptographic currency applications, pump technology for cosmetics, and optical tissue imaging by various methods.

Mrs. Mehta has also prepared, filed, and argued at oral hearings on a dozen Inter Partes Review (IPR) petitions.  Her litigation work includes defending clients in two patent infringement lawsuits related to the automotive industry in the Eastern District of Michigan.  She has also filed a handful of trademark applications for clients working in the electronic discovery field.

Mrs. Mehta previously worked as a bring-up engineer at IBM in Austin, Texas, and as a digital signal processing engineer at Texas Instruments.