Maria Eliseeva     
     Maria Eliseeva's IP group professional web page at patentbar.com

        I am a co-founding partner of the intellectual property law firm of Houston Eliseeva LLP
        in Lexington, Massachusetts. I am admitted to practice in MA, NY,  DC and before the
        US PTO. I am a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association where I
        chaired the International and Foreign Law Committee, Electronic Business and Automation
        Committee and vice-chaired the Licensing Committee. I can be reached via e-mail or phone
        (+1.781.863.9991).


Areas of Professional Experience

I have been practicing IP law for about 15 years. I hold two Master's Degrees in science and engineering (in Physics and in Material Science and Engineering). I practice in all areas of patent law, including opinion practice, patent prosecution, counseling, transactions involving IP issues (such as, for example, due diligence in M&A and bankruptcy cases, licensing) and litigation support. My areas of technical experience include:

I also specialize in preparing and prosecuting trademark applications, as well as practicing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. 

You can read more about my background here.  Creative projects and accomplishments in the legal area

Our Russian/Ukrainian/Eurasian Practice Group

In addition to practicing all areas of the US patent and trademark law, a growing portion of our practice is related to assisting clients in protecting their intellectual property rights (patents, designs, utility models, trademarks) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, other former Soviet republics, including practice in Eurasia (via the Eurasian Patent Organization). We assist clients from the US, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, England, Canada, New Zealand and other countries with various intellectual property legal issues in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union.  

In addition to myself, our firm's Russian/Ukrainian/Eurasian IP group consist of 6 fully bilingual or trilingual IP professionals:

Ilya Lapshin        Ilya Lapshin is a registered US Patent Attorney; he studied at the department 
       of Physics of Gorky University in Russia. After relocating to the US, Ilya graduated 
       from MIT with majors in Physics/EE and Mathematics, and from Boston University 
       with a JD degree. He worked as a researcher at Harvard University Medical School,    
       IBM Watson Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His area of
       expertise is Nuclear Physics, Optics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Programming.
.      Ilya is admitted to Massachusetts bar. Ilya is bilingual in English and Russian.



Ilya Libenzon        Ilya Libenzon is a registered US Patent Attorney; he graduated from Moscow Chemical
        Technological University with an M.S. degree in chemical engineering. He has over fourteen
        years of engineering experience in the field of fabrication, testing and characterization of
        semiconductor devices. He worked as an engineer at Luminous Devices, Corning Lasertron,
        Raytheon RF Components. Ilya also graduated from Suffolk University in Boston with a JD degree.
        He is admitted to Massachusetts bar. Ilya is bilingual in English and Russian.




Berta Lugina        Berta Lugina has been a Russian Patent Attorney for about 30 years, experienced in all aspects
        of Russian patent prosecution, including appellate work, with emphasis on high-technology areas, such as
        physics, EE and mechanical engineering. She graduated from Polytechnical Univeristy in Nizhny
        Novgorod, Russia. In addition to her three-decade long patent prosecution experience, she was the head of
        the Patent Department at Radio-Physical Research Institute and the Principal IP Specialist at the Institute of
        Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, both in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She was inhouse
        patent counsel at a company commercializing medical imaging devices based on OCT technology. Berta has an
        M.S.Patent degree from Russian Institute of Intellectual Property. She is bilingual in English and Russian.


Ekaterina Trifonova        Ekaterina Trifonova is a technical specialist, she has a B.S. degree in Physics from Leningrad
        Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. degree in Optical Devices and Systems, and a Ph.D. in Physics of
        Semiconductors and Dielectrics from St. Petersburg State Technical University. She was a researcher
        at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in St. Petersburg and at the Department of Electronics of the
        Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She also worked as a patentability analyst, conducting
        searches and preparing International Search Reports and International Preliminary Reports on
        Patentability for a US PTO contractor. She is bilingual in English and Russian with a basic knowledge
        of Swedish.


Catherne Stalbo        Catherine Stalbo is a paralegal in our group. She graduated summa cum laude with an M.A. degree in
        Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication from St. Petersburg Institute of Foreign Languages.
        Catherine spent about 10 years working with international publishing houses, where she handled several dozens
        of multi-language online scholarly projects. She started as a project manager in the Russian and Dutch offices
        of a Dutch publisher. Later Catherine became a representative of another Netherlands-based publisher in Russia,
        she served as a liaison between the Dutch and American offices and the company's Russian and European clients. 
        Catherine is trilingual in English, Russian and Spanish, and she is also an accomplished pianist.


We constantly work with foreign colleagues on improving their understanding of  law firm practice management, their familiarity with the standards of client service and their understanding of the differences between local IP laws. Specifically, we have a program of internships for our local agents. Several Russian and Ukrainian patent agents have already interned in our practice group.

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