Christine Q. McLeod
Phone: (407) 926-7723
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Christine Q. McLeodhas experience in representing clients in various intellectual property matters, including patent, trademark, and copyright matters, licensing, dispute resolution, and litigation. Her practice includes patent application preparation and prosecution in a wide range of technologies, including: electronics, communications systems, computer hardware and software, and business methods. She has specific experience in the preparation and negotiation of patent, trademark, and copyright licenses and royalty agreements. Her experience further includes counseling clients on issues involving computer software and the protection and use of copyrighted materials. She also counsels clients on the selection, availability for use, and registration of trademarks and service marks, and on the preparation and prosecution of applications to protect marks with state agencies and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including opposition and cancellation practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and litigation in Federal Court. Ms. McLeod is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Specific Areas of Patent Preparation and/or Prosecution Experience:
Software and computer-implemented business methods, including authentication, network monitoring, source code translators, dynamic web page generators, Internet portals, patient care, referral, and scheduling, financial tracking and banking, graphical user interfaces; electrical and electronic devices, including power converters, current/voltage control circuits, smart batteries, signal analysis, digital communication, power generators, monitoring devices .

Bar Admissions:
Florida
District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court Southern, Middle, Northern Districts of Florida

Education:
University of Miami School of Law
Coral Gables , Florida , J.D., cum laude , 1991

Florida International University , B.S. 1989Majors: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

*Ms. McLeod's website is not associated with Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A., and the content of the site is soley attributable to Ms. McLeod.