Shruti costales | owner & founder

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Shruti's IP legal experience is extensive. Not only does she have patent litigation and counseling experience, she also has drafted and prosecuted over 1000 patent applications in various technology areas in her career. Further, Shruti has deep IP management experience from her in-house experiences. She can handle patent portfolio(s) management, patent application preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-operate (FTO), risk analysis, and risk mitigation, IP strategy and counseling, licensing and technology transfer, competitive analysis and monitoring, trade secrets and confidential information management, patent budgeting and cost management, and cross-functional collaboration. 

During her career, Shruti has worked at a Fortune 100 company where she was responsible for all three-dimensional printing materials related commercial agreements, supply chain agreements, IP agreements, and patent portfolios. In this in-house role Shruti drafted and prosecuted dozens of patent applications. 

Before going in-house, Shruti was in private practice for well over a decade where she worked on patent litigation matters, a variety of contracts, IP counseling matters, and drafting and prosecuting patent applications worldwide in various technology areas.

She has also worked as a patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Shruti has considerable experience guiding businesses along with related engineering, product, and innovation teams from an early-stage product development to commercialization and launching. She has nearly two decades of experience guiding IP protection strategy and policy with clients. 

Her technical experience over two decades is expansive and deep in many areas including but not limited to chemicals/materials technologies (e.g., microelectronics including semiconductors, integrated circuits/chips, microprocessors, and memory devices; batteries and fuel cells; catalysts; polymers; additive manufacturing; food/nutrition; nanotechnology; oil and gas; tire and rubber; building materials/composites; water treatment/purification; tobacco/nicotine products; filtration solutions; performance materials; and consumer goods), life sciences/healthcare technologies (e.g., biotechnology & diagnostics; pharmaceutical – small molecule and large molecule; medical surgical products; dental & ophthalmological solutions; and purification and filtration technologies), electrical & computer technologies (e.g., electronic devices and components; consumer electronics; microelectronics including semiconductors; and financial, business, and fintech services), and mechanical technologies (e.g., automotive and smart mobility technology; mechanical components; and medical devices). 

Recently, Shruti was responsible for supply chain agreements and sales agreements totaling billions of dollars at a Fortune 50 technology company. She managed thousands of agreements and negotiated many complex deals involving various issues including IP rights transfer/licensing issues; AI related risks and legal compliance issues; regulatory issues; trade compliance issues; FED/SLED contracting issues; commercial contracting including XaaS contracting issues; data security and privacy rights issues; insurance and tax related issues; antitrust related issues; labor laws compliance related issues; etc. 

Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire School of Law), JD

Purdue University, B.S. in Chemical Engineering 

•  Panelist Patent Pathways® Virtual Event: Mock Interview & Networking Experience (November 13, 2024)  

•  Co-author of a comment letter on behalf of the American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Law Section on "Expanding Opportunities To Appear Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board” (May 21, 2024)

• Moderator “Remote, Hybrid, or 100% In-Office Work Models in the Legal Profession - Mental Health Impact on Lawyers, DEI Impact on Lawyers, and Pros & Cons," an IP Chat Channel webinar hosted by the Intellectual Property Owners Association (April 2024) 

 • Co-presenter “IPO’s D&I Committee’s Hiring & Retention Guide – An Introduction and Overview,” a webinar for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (May 2023)

• Co-author of the “Practical Guide to Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession – Hiring & Retention Guide,” a Practical Guide for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (February 2023)

• Co-presenter “Introduction to the Myth of the Meritocracy in the Legal Profession,” a webinar for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (November 2022)

• Co-author of “The Myth of the Meritocracy in Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments,” a white paper for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (August 2022)

• Co-author Version 3.0 of Section 201, “A Practical Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession,” a Practical Guide for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (November 2021)

• Co-author Version 3.0 of Section 101, “A Practical Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession,” a Practical Guide for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (July 2021)

• Co-presenter “How to Successfully Drive Inclusion and Diversity in EVERY IP Department,” IPO Virtual Spring Summit (April 21, 2021)

• Co-author, Comments on USPTO/NCEAI Questions on Increasing Diversity in Innovation (January 2021)

• Co-presenter, “How to Be a Better Ally for Diversity & Inclusion Workshop,” IPO Virtual Annual Meeting (September 2020)

• Moderator, “Practical Guide to Diversity in the Legal Profession in a Post-George Floyd Era,” IPO Webinar (June 2020) 

• Co-presenter, “A Practical Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession,” IPO Spring Summit (March 2020) 

• Co-presenter, “Ex Parte Appeals at the PTAB,” PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference (March 2019)• Co-author, “Economics of Diversity,” white paper for IPO (March 2019) 

• Co-presenter, “Intersection and Dissection of Diversity and Implicit Bias,” IPO Chat Channel Webinar (December 18, 2018) 

• Co-presenter, “Ex Parte Appeals at the PTAB,” PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference (March 2018) 

• Co-author, “Gender Pay Gaps” white paper (October 2018)

• Co-presenter, “How I Hire Outside Counsel,” Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows Summit (November 2017)

• Co-author: Toolkit on Implicit Bias (November 2017); Implicit Bias White Paper (November 2017)

• Moderator, “Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession,” Intellectual Property Owners Association Annual Meeting (September 2017)

• Moderator, “Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession,” Webinar offered by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s Diversity Committee (August 2017)

• Co-author: Toolkit on Vague Feedback(August 2017), Toolkit on Speaking with Influence(August 2017), Toolkit on Work-Life Balance (August 2017)

• Co-presenter, “Ex Parte Patent Appeals,” South Asian Bar Association-DC (May 2017)

• Author, “EpiPen® Pricing – Evidence of a systemic problem with drug pricing in the USA,” Journal of Generic Medicines: The Business Journal for the Generic Medicines Sector (November 2016) 

• Presenter, “After Final Practice,” Client (confidential), New Jersey (2014)

• Presenter, “Intersection of Patent Prosecution and E-Discovery,” Client (confidential), New Jersey (2013)

• Presenter, “Examiner Interviews at the USPTO,” Client (confidential), New Jersey (2011)

• Co-presenter, “Biotechnology Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective,” United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA (2008)

• Co-presenter, “Intellectual Property Start-ups,” Genius Federation Seminar at Howard University, Washington, D.C. (2007)

• Co-author, “On-Line and In Court: Determining Jurisdiction for Litigation Involving Trademark and Copyright Infringement on the Internet,” International Legal Strategy (2004)

• Contributor, “Annual Review of Recent Developments in U.S. Intellectual Property Rights and Practice,” International Legal Strategy (2003)