Shirin Mirdamadi-Tehrani ^‡

Shirin Tehrani, a registered patent attorney, counsels technology and life sciences companies on patent prosecution, portfolio strategy, and intellectual property due diligence. She drafts and prosecutes U.S. and Patent Cooperation Treaty patent applications across mechanical, robotics, chemical, software, and medical device fields, and manages end-to-end intellectual property strategy for client portfolios.

Her background as a mechanical engineer at Raytheon Technologies in the defense and aerospace industries gives her a technical fluency that allows her to work closely with inventors and engineering teams with the goal of identifying and protecting patentable innovations.

Shirin leads invention harvesting sessions with engineers and business stakeholders to develop patent and trade secret strategies aligned with commercial objectives. She prepares and prosecutes office action responses, conducts examiner interviews, and manages foreign filing strategies. In the transactional context, she performs IP due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions activity, including patent portfolio assessment, freedom-to-operate analysis, and risk identification.

Concentrations

• Legal Areas
  • Patent prosecution and opinions
  • Patent portfolio strategy
  • IP due diligence
  • Patentability and freedom-to-operate analysis
• Technical Areas
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Software and computer-implemented inventions
  • Digital health and telemedicine
  • Medical devices
  • Robotics