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Amara Osisioma
Amara Osisioma
Senior Associate

Overview

Amara Osisioma works on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including litigating patent disputes, representing clients in inter partes reviews and assisting in the assessment of intellectual property assets as part of due diligence in an M&A deal. She has defended clients in patent infringement suits against both individual inventors and corporate competitors.

Ms. Osisioma has experience in electrical engineering, software engineering and hardware engineering, including various aspects of computer architecture. She uses this experience to develop a deep understanding of the technology at issue in each representation.

Ms. Osisioma has experience in both bench and jury trials and second-chaired a jury trial in a pro bono matter.

Prior to law school, Ms. Osisioma worked for close to five years as a Program Manager in the Windows Core Operating System Division, at Microsoft Corporation, where she owned various features within the operating system and managed a team to deliver those features across several Windows’ releases.

Admission & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
  • Austin Intellectual Property Law Association
  • American Bar Association
  • J.D., Harvard Law School 2013
    Senior Editor, Harvard Business Law Journal
    Submissions Committee, DIGEST contributor, Journal of Law and Technology
    Editor, International Law Journal
  • Master of Laws, University of Cambridge 2013
    Member of the Executive Committee, Cambridge Pro Bono Project
  • B.Sc., Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University 2005
    summa cum laude
  • B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University 2005
    summa cum laude
    Dean McLaughlin Award for Academic Excellence awarded to the graduating senior with the highest GPA in the College of Engineering

Experience

  • Defended a corporate client in the Automatic Content Recognition industry in a patent litigation matter.
  • Defended a chip manufacturer against claims of patent infringement.
  • Defended a major home security services company in a patent dispute with one of its major competitors.