Maria Anderson

Practice Areas

Trademarks & Brand Protection

IP Strategy

IP Transactions & Agreements

Patents

Career

Ms. Anderson joined Knobbe Martens as a partner in the Seattle office in January 2008. Ms. Anderson has extensive experience in comprehensive, strategic client counseling in all aspects of intellectual property. She has been very active in the procurement of patent assets in the computer science and ecommerce fields since 1993, and thus, is a thought leader in the intellectual property field with respect patent subject matter eligibility.

Ms. Anderson has extensive experience in developing patent and trademark portfolios and developing patent and trademark assets for a diverse group of clients, i.e., from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Accordingly, Ms. Anderson has guided numerous clients from the earliest rounds of financing through initial public offering, and beyond. Ms. Anderson also provides patent and trademark clearance analysis and advice for a wide variety of products and services, including medical devices, food and beverage products and cloud computing services. She also counsels clients on patentability and infringement matters and develops comprehensive intellectual property programs for pre-litigation, licensing and enforcement purposes.

Professional Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association

King County Washington Women Lawyers

King County Bar Association

Washington State Patent Lawyers Association

ChIPs

Publications

Co-author, "Strategies for Obtaining Patents on AI Inventions in the U.S. and Europe," insideBIGDATA (March 2019)

Co-author, "Even Non-Obvious Patent Claims May Lack Inventive Concepts," Knobbe Martens Section 101 Blog (December 2017)

Co-author, "Effectively Developing IP Assets," Business Law Newsletter, Business Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association, Volume 37, Number 1 (Spring 2016)

Education