Leila Abdi

Leila Abdi is an associate at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner in the firm's Electrical and Computer Technology Practice Group. Her practice includes all aspects of patent prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including the preparation of patent applications, conducting Examiner interviews and filing appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals for patent applications involving software, telecommunications, Internet technologies, and business methods including e-business and financial solutions. Additionally, she has supported litigations involving infringement and validity disputes, and has also drafted patentability and clearance opinions.

Before joining Finnegan Henderson, Ms. Abdi worked as a patent agent at an Intellectual Property firm in Virginia. There she prepared and prosecuted applications involving relational database technology, e-commerce and business methods, computer networking and architecture, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence.

Prior to entering law school, Ms. Abdi worked as a software developer for Accenture where she helped develop software for Bellsouth's financial sector for local calling as well has helping to develop software solutions for Bellsouth launch of long distance. While earning her degree in Computer Science, Ms. Abdi taught and developed curriculum for a Computer Science course at Georgia Tech which covered topics ranging from Java, Perl, HTML to Networking. Ms. Abdi also studied various aspects of systems programming, networking, telecommunications, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theory of computation, database systems, and educational technology.

Admitted:
Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education:
American University Washington College of Law (J.D. expected 2005); Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S. Computer Science, 2001).
Association Involvement:
American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Federal Circuit Bar Association; Woman's Bar Association.