Sarah M. Gates Of Counsel

Patent Prosecution and Counseling

Patent Analysis

Phone: 603-836-1489
Email: sgates@finchmaloney.com

Sarah’s practice focuses on domestic and foreign patent prosecution and patent portfolio development. She counsels a wide variety of clients, ranging from individual inventors and start-ups to large companies, to identify, protect, and leverage their intellectual property rights.

With over 20 years of experience in patent law, Sarah works with clients to develop and manage patent portfolios across a diverse array of technologies in the electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering arts. Areas of technical expertise include wireless communications, optical systems, semiconductor devices and manufacturing, medical devices, and acoustics. At her prior firm, Sarah served for five years on the Management Committee responsible for the firm’s strategic planning and operations. This experience allowed her the opportunity to develop and strengthen leadership and management skills and also gave her a critical business perspective that she brings to her work with clients. In addition, throughout her career, she has been deeply involved in training for attorneys and staff in intellectual property law, and in guiding and developing best practices to adapt to the ever-changing rules and laws governing both domestic and foreign intellectual property rights.

Sarah received her JD, magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School, a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a bachelor’s degree, with honors, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and Connecticut.