Brenda Holmes focuses her practice on patent strategy and analysis for international and domestic companies. She assists clients in identifying and patenting key innovations, developing domestic and international patent strategies, and building and managing their portfolios. Ms. Holmes advises clients on potential patent infringement issues and prepares invalidity and non-infringement opinions. Ms. Holmes also represents companies in licensing negotiations, patent reissue and reexamination proceedings, and analyzes patents in litigation.

Ms. Holmes has counseled clients in a wide variety of industries, including software, telecommunications, computer systems, wireless systems, signal processing, electronic commerce, and vehicle components. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Holmes was an engineer with IBM, working in the areas of system development and memory controller chip design.

Ms. Holmes was recognized as a 2008 Georgia "Super Lawyer" in Intellectual Property Law by SuperLawyers magazine and was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Intellectual Property Law for 2011 and 2012. She is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

* CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies. 

Professional & Community Activities

American Bar Association, Member

American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, Member

Japan America Society of Georgia, Member

State Bar of Florida, Member

State Bar of Georgia, Member

Women in Technology, Vice President, Board of Directors

Florida Law Review, Associate Editor 

Education

  • University of Florida College of Law, J.D. (1993)
    high honors, Order of the Coif
  • Florida Atlantic University, M.S., Computer Engineering (1988)
  • University of Florida, B.S., Electrical Engineering (1984)
    with honors

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia (1997)
  • Florida (1993)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1996)

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Fully engaged means listening to our clients, working with them to develop a strategy and then executing the strategy to obtain meaningful results.

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Brenda O. Holmes

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