Amanda M. Miller
Senior Counsel
Amanda advises clients on protecting their intellectual property assets and defends their rights in enforcement actions, with a primary focus on patent licensing, prosecution and litigation. Her experience includes preparing patent applications for pharmaceutical, chemical and mechanical inventions and preparing patent-related opinions, such as freedom-to-operate and invalidity opinions, including those related to Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA). Amanda also provides guidance on patenting strategy and litigation avoidance/design-arounds and supervises foreign patent prosecutions. Her extensive experience in prosecuting and defending patent infringement actions encompasses a variety of technologies, and she has litigated cases in federal courts across the country.
Examples of Amanda’s experience include:
Patent Prosecution
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a napkin holder.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a handbag organizer.
- Prosecuting a patent application for edge sealants having balanced properties.
- Prosecuting a patent application for arterial cooling elements for use with an immobilization collar.
- Prosecuting a patent application for wide-view multilayer optical films.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a kitchen organizer.
- Prosecuting a patent application related to panel communication via an illuminated bezel.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a double hook.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a basket.
- Prosecuting a patent application for a fuel gauging system utilizing a digital fuel gauging probe.
- Prosecuting a patent application for a sealed gimbal joint.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a lid rack.
- Prosecuting a patent application for a method of conforming a label to the contour of a container.
- Prosecuting a design patent application for a corner shelf.
- Prosecuting a patent application for a method of applying a polyurethane adhesive to a substrate.
Patent Litigation
- Serving as lead counsel for the plaintiff in a declaratory judgment action involving fitness equipment.
- Serving as lead counsel for the plaintiff in a patent infringement dispute involving radio frequency audience response systems.
- CALI Award of Excellence in Trial Advocacy
- Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club, Northeast Ohio’s Top 25 Under 35
- YWCA Women of Professional Excellence (2012)
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association, Committee on Patent Legislation
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association, secretary (2010-2013)
Professional Activities
- Court of Nisi Prius
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, fellow
Community Activities
- Beech Brook, board member
- Cleveland Leadership Center, Civic Leadership Institute
- College Now, mentor
- American Heart Association, Go Red for Women Corporate Leadership Team (2014-2015)
- The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio, LeadDIVERSITY Class of 2014
- YWCA of Greater Cleveland, Women’s Leadership Bootcamp (2012-2013)