Tanya S. Gaylord

Intellectual Property Attorney

Tanya is a registered U.S. patent attorney with more than a decade of experience in patent law and a master’s degree in electronic engineering and microelectronics. She is dedicated to helping clients protect their innovation and achieve their business goals through strategic, high-quality, and cost-effective solutions. Tanya advises individuals, startups, and companies of all sizes on intellectual property portfolio development and management with a personalized, client-centered approach. Her multicultural perspective combined with experience in engineering, litigation, and intellectual property, enables her to assist domestic and international clients in safeguarding and commericalizing their products, services, and brands while avoiding costly disputes.

Tanya focuses her practice on patent preparation and prosecution, as well as patent opinions, in the electronic, electrical, electromechanical, and computer software fields. She has drafted and favorably prosecuted to allowance hundreds of patent applications related to wireless communication modules, semiconductor modules and fabrication, automotive and aircraft electronics and control systems, autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, welding systems, battery technology, medical devices, diagnostics and imaging equipment, electrical motors and control circuits, image processing, payment processing, optical sensors, optical filters, lenses, imaging systems, household appliances, refrigeration and cooling control systems, printers, and digital interfaces.

At the beginning of her legal career, Tanya clerked for a Business Court judge and then practiced law for three years in Nevada, primarily in the areas of business and commercial litigation, gaining experience in court procedures, client counseling, alternative dispute resolution, and transactional work. Before transitioning to law, she worked as an electronics and automation engineer at the Research Institute for Magnetic and Optical Systems in Sofia, Bulgaria, developing automated systems for electronic component design.

When not working, Tanya enjoys spending time with her family and their Shiba Inu dogs, traveling and competing in American Kennel Club (AKC) conformation dog shows. She is an aspiring AKC judge.

Community Activities

• Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada (LACSN):
  Pro Bono 100 Hour Club (2012), Pro Bono 50 Hour Club (2011)
• Committee Chair of the Breeder Directory Education Program (BDEP) of the National Shiba Club of America (NSCA)

Industry Experience

• Extensive experience in patent preparation and prosecution, and counseling, in the electronics, electrical, software, electromechanical, and computer software fields.
• Successfully appeals USPTO examiners’ final rejections of inventions related to automotive electronics and control systems, wireless communications modules, and semiconductor fabrication, many of which have resulted in allowance after filing the appeal brief.
• Regularly prepares invalidity and freedom to operate opinions, as well as product evaluations for clearance and infringement for electronic and electrical devices and systems.
• Often involved in patent pre-litigation analysis, post-grant proceedings (inter partes reviews), and litigation.
• Prepares and prosecutes trademarks and manages trademark portfolios for electrical power distribution systems.

Education

• J.D., William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2009)
  Law Review; CALI Awards for the highest grade in Trial Advocacy, Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing, and Immigration Law
• M.S., Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics, minor Automation Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1990)

Admissions

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• State Bar of Nevada
• State Bar of Ohio
• U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Languages

• Bulgarian
• German
• Russian