practice areas
honors + affiliations
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Vice-Chair, ABA Young Lawyers Division of Intellectual Property Law (2009–2010)
bar admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Washington, D.C.
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1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-2541
Phone: 202.739.5963
Fax: 202.739.3001
Rachael Lea Leventhal is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Intellectual Property Practice. Ms. Leventhal focuses her practice on patent law, with emphasis on electrical circuitry, computer memory devices and systems, information storage media, liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, semiconductor devices and fabrication methods, imagers, lasers, business methods, and software inventions. Her practice encompasses the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent applications, patent litigation, and client counseling.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Leventhal worked at a boutique patent firm in Washington, D.C. Before that, she was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm, where she focused her practice on patent prosecution and litigation. Prior to that, Ms. Leventhal was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of a national law firm, where she managed and counseled clients, including acting as primary IP counsel, and gained experience in patent prosecution and litigation.
Ms. Leventhal earned her M.B.A. from Suffolk University in 2010. She earned her J.D., cum laude, with an intellectual property concentration with distinction from Suffolk University Law School in 2004. While in law school, she clerked at several law firms in Boston. Ms. Leventhal earned her S.B. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Her technical concentrations at M.I.T. included digital systems and biotechnology. While an undergraduate student, she participated in several internships working with various technologies, including artificial limbs, vehicle telematics, liquid crystal displays, printed circuit boards, wireless communication, information technology disaster recovery, modular programmable devices, adaptive technologies for disabled persons, data modeling, graphical user interfaces, and digital systems. Ms. Leventhal is conversational in Spanish.
Ms. Leventhal is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
education
- Suffolk University, 2010, M.B.A.
- Suffolk University Law School, 2006, J.D., Cum Laude
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001, S.B. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
