Resonance IP Law

Amy J. Embert is an experienced patent attorney focused on helping clients maximize and protect their company’s intellectual property. With over 20 years of patent prosecution experience, she counsels clients on the development, prosecution, and management of their domestic and international patent portfolios.

Amy works with companies at all stages of growth in multiple industries including medical device, IT, software, semiconductor, material science, computer hardware, consumer electronics, optics, photonics, apparel, fashion, and sporting goods. Amy also has experience with patent validity proceedings, including Inter Partes reviews, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, and appeals to the Federal Circuit.

Amy is intimately involved with the Silicon Valley Start-up community. She works with the Fogarty Institute for Innovation in Mountain View and UC Hastings Startup Legal Garage program to provide individual inventors and new start-ups strategic patent portfolio development advice.

Donna M. Haynes is a patent attorney with extensive experience in patent law and compliance.  With over 15 years of experience, she is passionate about driving end-to-end intellectual property protection strategies and mitigating legal risks for emerging and established enterprises.  

Donna focuses her practice primarily on the development, procurement, and maintenance, and of global patent portfolios.  Donna’s patent experience spans diverse technologies including chemistry; nuclear energy and reactor mechanisms; upstream, midstream, and downstream energy; biomedical devices; clean and renewable energy; materials science; biotechnology; nanotechnology; and mechanical engineering.    

Prior to attending law school, Donna worked in the biomedical and biotechnological industries.

Donna received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barons, and received the University of Houston Institution for Intellectual Property and Informational Law Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. She also served as chief articles editor for The Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy. She received her Advanced Certificate in Biomedical Quality Systems from San Diego State University and her B.S. in Biology, Focus in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, University Honors.