Fish & Richardson Adds 4 New Associates in Silicon Valley

Fish & Richardson has added four associates to the firm’s Silicon Valley office, located in Redwood City – Andrew Goldberg, Michelle Parsons, Dr. Noorossadat Torabi, and Holly Victorson.

A total of 38 new associates have joined Fish across the firm’s 12 offices.

Andrew Goldberg previously worked as an extern for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is a USPTO registered patent attorney. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2015, where he was associate editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, his M.Eng. in electrical engineering from Boston University in 2013, and his B.A., cum laude, in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 2010. He is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Michelle Oberfell Parsons specializes in trademark and copyright prosecution and enforcement, technology and social media issues, entertainment law, and IP litigation. Prior to her legal career, she was a software programmer. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2011, where she served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Margaret A. Nagle of the U.S. District Court for the Central District, a Production Editor on the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, and a delegate on the Inter-American Human Rights Court, and her B.S., with honors, in Information Systems and Decision Sciences from Louisiana State University in 2000. She is admitted to practice in California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Dr. Noorossadat Torabi received her J.D., cum laude, from the New York University School of Law in 2015, where she served as the competition advocacy editor of the Moot Court Board. She received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton University, and both her M.S. and B.S. in biotechnology from the University of Tehran in 2007. She is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to joining Fish, Holly Victorson served for six years as a software and systems engineer and as the director of the Office of Research and Technology Applications at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate. She received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2015, where she was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, and her B.S., summa cum laude, in computer engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2006. She is admitted to practice in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Also joining Fish’s Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation Group in the firm’s other offices are Rachel Bandli (Twin Cities), Ashley Bolt (Atlanta), William B. Collier, Jr. (Dallas), Dr. Sarah Cork (Washington, D.C.), Jared Hartzman (Washington, D.C.), Lawrence Jarvis (Atlanta), Erin Leach (Washington, D.C.), April Sunyoung Park (Washington, D.C.), Liz Ranks (Boston), Dr. Grant Rice (Boston), Jeremy Saks (New York), Dr. Veronica Sandoval (Southern California), James Sebel (Boston), Jared Smith (Southern California), Maria Stiteler (Twin Cities), Ryan Teel (Washington, D.C.), Dr. Karrie Wheatley (Houston), Nicole Williams (Southern California), and Sabrina Wilson (Atlanta).

Associates joining the Patent Group include Dr. Crystal Culhane (Southern California), Patrick Darno (Washington, D.C.), Craig A. Deutsch (Twin Cities), Brian J. Goldberg (Washington, D.C.), Moses A. Heyward (Boston), Christopher Hoff (Twin Cities), Dr. Annie King (Boston), Dr. Peng Lin (Boston), Dr. Cameron Luitjens (Twin Cities), Steven J. Petkovsek (Boston), Andrew Rejent (Boston), Dr. Thomas J. Styslinger (Twin Cities), and Scott Tobias (Austin).

Vivian Cheng (New York) and John P. McCormick (Boston) have joined the Trademark and Copyright Group.