Miranda Sooter is a member of Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property – Mechanical Patents Group. Miranda focuses her practice on preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications to strengthen and protect the vital patent portfolios of her clients. She also conducts in-depth freedom-to-operate analyses and prior art studies to advise clients on potential patentability, validity, and infringement issues in such fields as refrigerants, specialty ballistic composite materials, carbon nanotubes, epoxy resins, aerospace products, solder materials, smoke detectors, industrial machinery, and solar-cell technology.
Miranda has considerable experience representing clients in state, federal, and appellate courts throughout the U.S. and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies, including computer software, telecommunications, GPS, semiconductors, mass spectrometers, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products. Miranda has represented petitioners and patent owners in post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Her familiarity with complex intellectual property and other commercial litigation matters informs her ability to counsel clients developing a comprehensive patent portfolio strategy.
Miranda received her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. She also received a B.S. in chemistry, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Missouri, where she was a recipient of the university scholar award.
