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Provided by Natalie Alfaro Gonzales
Natalie is a skilled trial lawyer who represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex intellectual property disputes.
Natalie’s courtroom success is enhanced by her ability to connect with witnesses, judges, and juries and her ease with which she simplifies complex technologies into clear, compelling narratives. As a registered patent attorney with an engineering background, Natalie offers comprehensive IP counsel beyond litigation, including pre-suit investigations, licensing arrangements, and IP agreements.
She has extensive experience litigating patent, trade secret, and other IP cases in federal district courts across the country and handling adversarial proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Member: Houston Bar Association, 2010-Present
Member: Minority IP Lawyers Association, 2015-Present
Member: SOMOS Latina Lawyers, 2022-Present
Member: Hispanic National Bar Association, 2016-Present
Member & Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Committee: Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, 2011-Present
Texas Chapter Leader and Global Summit Committee: ChIPs —Advancing Women in Tech, Law, and Policy, 2018-Present
Steering Committee: Texas Minority Counsel Program, 2018-Present
Trustee: Foundation of Advancement of Diversity in IP Law, 2021-Present
Immediate Past-President & Board Member: Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, 2016-Present
Member: The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, 2012-2019
Member: Eastern District of Texas Bar Association & Bench Bar Planning Committee, 2010-2019
Advisory Board: Women Lawyers of the Eastern District of Texas, 2017-2018
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 2014-2020
Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2018 Fellow
“Reading Between the (SFFA) Lines: DEI & Law Firms”, SOMOS Latina Lawyers Symposium CLE, April 2024
Special Guest Speaker, 2024 Women in IP Law Global Networking Event, April 2024
“Women in IP: Patents, Branding, and Privacy”, Texas Minority Counsel Program, October 2023
Judicial Panel (Moderator), Houston Intellectual Property Law Association/UHLC IPIL Annual Institute, October 2023. October 2021, and September 2019
“Filling the Gap: Successful Mentoring Relationships in Modern Work Spaces,” Houston Bar Association Professionalism Committee CLE, January 2023
“Patent Venue in the Western District of Texas after July 2022,” CLE, October 2022
“Litigation Funding for Patent Cases”, UT IP CLE, October 2022
“Applying Antitrust Liability to Standard Essential Patent Conduct,” SBOT IP Section Advanced IP Law CLE, February 2022
“Innovating for Sustainability and the Energy Transition,” ChIPs Global Summit, October 2021
“IP Issues to Watch as the Ion Accelerates Houston’s Startup Ecosystem,” Association of Corporate Counsel Houston Annual Symposium, August 2021
“Clean Energy Technology – Paving the Way for the Energy Transition,” Energy Transition Update, July 2021
“Protecting Your Hydrogen Investment: Intellectual Property Issues”, Hydrogen Update, June 2021
“EmpowerHER” Panel of Outstanding Women Leaders in Startup/VC Ecosystem, The ION, May 2021
“Clean Energy Technology – Paving the Way for the Energy Transition,” Energy Update, Quarter 2, 2021
“Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession,” HisBA CLE, April 2021
“The Future of Corporate Venture Capital: Navigating Shifts in Accelerated Innovation,” SXSW, March 2021
“Mentoring the Next Generation of Hispanic Attorneys,” HisBA CLE, January 2021
“Strategic Career Management,” LCLD Alumni CLE, December 2020
“Trade Secret Update,” Houston Intellectual Property Law Association/UHLC IPIL Annual Institute, October 2020
“Remote to Reopening,” Plug and Play Tech Center, September 2020
“Corporate Venture Capital and Innovation: Investing to Drive Efficiency,” Kayo Women’s Energy Summit, September 2020
“Trends in Trade Secret Litigation,” Association of Corporate Counsel Houston Annual Symposium Webinar, August 2020
“IP Agreements Every Startup Should Know About,” The ION, August 2020
“Irreparable Harm in Patent Cases,” IPO Damages & Injunctions Committee, May 2020
“The IP Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Startups,” Landslide, Volume 10, Number 6, July/August 2018
“TC Heartland: The Supreme Court’s Game-Changing Decision that Will Widely Impact Where and How Patent Infringement Cases Will Be Tried in the Future,” Hispanic National Bar Association’s 2018 HNBA 9th Annual Corporate Counsel Conference, March 2018
“Willfulness and Patent Opinions,” Houston Intellectual Property Law Association/UHLC IPIL Fall Institute, October 2017
“Overview of Startup Accelerators and Incubators and Top Legal Issues Facing Startups,” HNBA Annual Convention, September 2017
“Strategies for Avoiding Divided Infringement Issues in Prosecution,” CLE, October 2016
“New Developments in IP Damages,” Texas Society of CPAs’ Forensic, Litigation and Valuation Services Committee Annual Conference, October 2016
“Trademarks and the Constitution: Does the First Amendment Protect Disparaging Trademarks?,” Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Convention, September 2016
“Requests for Rehearing After IPR Non-Institution Decisions,” PTAB Trials Report, October 2015
“Commercial Prior Art for Software Patents,” SBOT Advanced IP Law Course, February 2013
“Commercial Prior Art for Software Patents: When Claimed Methods Are ‘On Sale’,” Landslide, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2012
“Eastern District of Texas at Forefront of Settlement Agreement Admissibility and Discoverability Issue,” Lexology, January 2011
“Barring Validity Challenges Through No-Challenge Clauses and Consent Judgments: MedImmune’s Revival of the Lear Progeny,” Houston Law Review, 2008
J.D., University of Houston Law Center 2009
magna cum laude
Articles Editor, Houston Law Review
Order of the Coif
Order of the Barons
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas 2006
Pi Tau Sigma
Terry Foundation Scholar
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Natalie is super responsive and has a great technical background.
Natalie is super responsive and has a great technical background.