Meet Orange County Intellectual Property Attorney Susan Crockett
Susan Long Crockett is a principal in the firm. Working with high technology clients, Ms. Crockett prosecutes patent applications in diverse areas of technology, including software, Internet communication, medical devices, and electronics. She also counsels on trademark issues, infringement and validity issues, and patent infringement litigation. She has broad experience in international patent and trademark prosecution.
In her position, Susan brings a unique perspective to issues, drawing on years of engineering, managerial and marketing experience. Before becoming an attorney, Susan spent nine years as an engineer in widely diverse areas of practice dealing with hardware design, software design and integration, and technical marketing. She started her career at General Dynamics, designing Automatic Test Equipment for the Cruise Missile Program. She then moved on to lead teams of engineers designing and integrating flight software for the Atlas Centaur rocket system, launching telecommunication and government satellites. Susan performed product development and created and executed marketing strategies for computer systems during her work at Teledyne Systems Company.
While at Southwestern University School of Law, Susan was actively involved in their Moot Court Honors program, achieving a Finalist Oralist award in the 1994 Intramural Moot Court Competition, winning First Place Team in the 1995 Florida State Bar National Tax Competition, and serving on the Moot Court Board of Governors. She was also an editor of the Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas.
Susan lives in Mission Viejo, California with husband Dave and their two sons TJ and Kirk. Weekends you can find her running the trails with the middle school marathon club. Susan still finds time to remain active in the Boston University Alumni Schools Committee and judge at the annual Southwestern Intramural Moot Court Competition.
Educational History
- Southwestern University School of Law; JD, 1996, Cum laude
- National University; MBA, High Technology Management, 1989, with Distinction
- Boston University College of Engineering; BS, Electrical Engineering, 1984, with honors
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of California
- Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
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