Usha Parker focuses her practice on patent application drafting and prosecution. She particularly enjoys explaining the patenting process to inventors and counseling clients to build cost-efficient and effective IP portfolios. 

Prior to attending law school, Usha worked as an engineer at a Navy lab and at Motorola. In nearly two decades at several notable intellectual property law firms, Usha has drafted hundreds of applications for innovations in wireless communication, electronic circuits and interconnects, automotive sensor and processing systems, consumer and medical devices, semiconductors and integrated circuit designs, machine learning applications, and software. She has conducted over a thousand interviews with USPTO examiners. Usha has also performed clearance and opinion work, as well as litigation support for district court and ITC cases.

Usha is active in the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and has authored several articles on different aspects of patent procurement, including strategies for addressing 101 rejections.

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
J.D.
Virginia Tech
M.S. Electrical Engineering
Tennessee Tech University
B.S. Electrical Engineering

Admissions*
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Virginia
District of Columbia

Court Admissions
Eastern District of Virginia

Professional Activities
Chair, Electronics and Computer Law Committee (ECLC) of American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society
Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society

*Not licensed to practice in Georgia.