Wess, Sarah A.

Dr. Teresa Welch is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the Life Sciences Industry Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property, including patent, trademark and copyright law. Her experience in these areas spans a broad spectrum of industries from life sciences to electronics. Dr. Welch engages in worldwide strategic counseling, procurement and portfolio management of patent and trademark rights, technology and other intellectual property, licensing and technology transfers, invalidity, non-infringement and freedom-to-operate/clearance investigations, and intellectual property due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, all to ensure optimal protection, exploitation and enforcement of our clients' technological proprietary properties.

Dr. Welch teaches patent law at the University of Wisconsin Law School as an adjunct professor and is a supervising attorney in the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic. She has written and lectured in the field of intellectual property law, e.g., special challenges of patenting in an academic environment, patenting genes and life, and patenting bioinformatics inventions.