Melenie represents clients in intellectual property and complex commercial disputes, helping protect and enforce intellectual property and commercial rights through litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution proceedings. Her practice includes patent infringement and misuse, trade secret misappropriation, trademark and copyright claims, breach of contract, consumer disputes and antitrust issues. She handles matters across the litigation life cycle, including case strategy, pleadings, fact and expert discovery, dispositive and Daubert briefing, witness preparation, hearings, trial preparation and post-trial proceedings.

Melenie works with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies across a variety of industries, including technology and gaming, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, digital health and medical devices, payment processing and financial services, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, mobile advertising, automotive, consumer products, and renewable energy and solar manufacturing. She regularly coordinates case deadlines and workstreams, communicates directly with clients regarding strategy and recommendations as appropriate, and supervises junior associates. Her experience includes defending fact witness depositions and handling oral advocacy in arbitration and court proceedings. She has also assisted a patent litigation team through trial and post-trial proceedings.

Prior to joining the firm, Melenie served as an intellectual property legal and compliance intern at Jazz Pharmaceuticals and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Nathan D. Mihara of the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District. Melenie also participated in Google’s Legal Summer Institute as a legal scholar. Before law school, she interned with the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C.