Practice Areas:

• International Trademark & Patent Portfolio Management
• Patent Filings
• Trademark and Copyright Filings
• Madrid Protocol Filings (International Trademarks)
• Domain Name Disputes & Arbitration (UDRP / WIPO Arbitrations)

Education:

• 1998: Miami Dade College, A.A. Education
• 2005: Miami Dade College, A.A. Legal Assistant
• 1999: B. S. Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, cum laude.

Description:

Maria Lima is our intellectual property team’s paralegal handling all filings and communications with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”).   Maria, through assistance of Miami Patent Attorneys Robert Thornburg and David Costa, helps finalize and file complex domestic and international patent applications in a variety of technologies including in the life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, consumer products, mechanical devices, pharmaceuticals and green technologies.  In addition, she helps prepare correspondence between our office and the USPTO, as well as updates to our clients regarding the status of intellectual property filings.

Maria also helps manage large and comprehensive trademark portfolios including domestic and international trademark applications and registrations.  This includes filing both intent-to-use and Section 1(A) trademark filings before the USPTO, as well as international trademark filings under the Madrid Protocol.   Likewise, Maria assists in working with our vast assortment of foreign trademark associates in Latin American countries to help secure non-Madrid trademark rights for purposes of creating valuable international trademark portfolios.

Apart from her practice with trademark and patent portfolio management, Maria also assist with domain name dispute arbitrations through the Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDRP) offered by the World Intellectual

Property Organization (WIPO) – including filings before the National Arbitration Forum.

Maria particularly enjoys helping clients from Latin America and Europe who desire to help protect their intellectual property in the United States.

Previously, Maria served as the lead intellectual property paralegal for Greenberg Traurig’s Miami Office.

Our intellectual property team truly benefits from Maria’s first rate and unparalleled knowledge and experience that she has developed through her experience at our firm and her prior intellectual property practice – which allows our team to better advocate for the intellectual property rights of our clients in a cost effective, time efficient and detailed manner.

Languages:

Spanish & English (both Fluent)

Practice Areas:

• Patent Acquisition and Counseling

Admitted:

• United States Patent & Trademark Office

Education:

• 2012: J.D. University of Miami School of Law (Expected May 2012)
• 2009: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, cum laude, Lafayette College

Recognition:

• Dean’s Certificate in Intellectual Property Survey Course
• Dean’s Certificate of Achievement in Property
• CALI Excellence Award in Property

Biography:

Matthew Horowitz is a Registered Patent Agent specializing in the preparation, filing and prosecution of complex international and domestic mechanical systems, consumer products, medical devices, computer systems, business methods, software, and "green" technologies.

Mr. Horowitz also serves as a law clerk to Miami patent attorney Robert H. Thornburg in patent infringement and validity studies – as well as on legal research in intellectual property enforcement proceedings.

Currently, Matthew is a third-year student at the University of Miami School of Law, with a primary focus in intellectual property law. Ranked in the Top 10% of his law school class, Matthew recently received the Dean’s Certificate of Achievement (top two grades) in Intellectual Property Survey Law and has previously received both the Dean’s Certificate of Achievement and the CALI Excellence Award in Property. Matthew’s legal studies are primarily focused in intellectual property. He is a member of the Miami Intellectual Property Law Association, and serves on the Editorial Board of the International & Comparative Law Review. Matthew is also active in HYPE Miami and the Technology Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to attending law school, Matthew received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, cum laude, from Lafayette College. His technical experience includes employment at Florida Power & Light (FPL) as a materials failure analyst. He also served as a research assistant at Florida Atlantic University.

Matthew is a wonderful addition to our intellectual property team. He is a detailed legal researcher who brings a pragmatic yet academic view to complex intellectual property matters. Matthew has a wonderful work ethic, a keen addition to detail, and an appetite to solving difficult intellectual property problems. Matthew has tangible experience in preparing clients for deposition in intellectual property matters, organizing exhibits for depositions, and preparing witnesses for depositions. He has also assisted attorneys in our firm with preparing Daubert motions to exclude technical experts in patent infringement matters, as well as motions to compel in trademark and trade dress cases.

As a Miami Registered Patent Agent, Matthew uses his prior research experience at both Lafayette College and Florida Atlantic University to provide a technical understanding when in drafting and preparing complex provisional and non-provisional utility patent applications.

Affiliations:

• Intellectual Property Law Association of Florida
• Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (Creative Industries Committee).