Melenie Van is an associate in the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation practice. She is dedicated in helping clients solve issues related to the establishment and protection of their intellectual property needs. Melenie focuses her litigation practice on effectively enforcing and defending clients’ intellectual property and commercial rights in courts and other dispute resolution forums. Melenie’s experience includes matters involving claims of patent infringement and patent misuse, trade secret misappropriation, trademark, copyright, breach of contract, and antitrust.

Melenie has worked with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, in a variety of companies, from high technology industries, life sciences, digital health companies, pharmaceuticals, payment processing companies, mobile advertisers, phone and insurance carriers, to medical and financial institutions. Her experience involves working on cases relating to a variety of technologies, such as virtual reality, drug and dietary supplement products, payment processing devices, medical devices, and mobile and computer software and hardware. 

Prior to joining the firm, Melenie was a law clerk and summer associate at Polsinelli. Her previous experience includes working as an intellectual property legal and compliance intern at Jazz Pharmaceuticals and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Justice Nathan D. Mihara at the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District. Melenie participated in Google’s Legal Summer Institute as a legal scholar. Prior to law school, Melenie worked as an intern for the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C.