Sachin Patel focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patent litigation in district courts across the country and post-grant proceedings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). His experience spans a variety of technologies ranging from biotechnology to mechanical devices.
Sachin is a registered patent attorney. While in law school, Sachin served as an intellectual property research assistant to Professor Mark D. Janis. Sachin was the recipient of the 2020 Jan Jancin Award, a scholarship given to the law student who best exemplifies excellence in the field of intellectual property law. Prior to law school, he worked as a paralegal for a law firm in Chicago.
Sachin also maintains an active pro bono practice that includes handling a detainee's Section 1983 civil rights case in federal court.
Sachin is a member of the Richard Linn American Inn of Court.
Experience
- Indiana University (J.D. magna cum laude 2020; Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Intellectual Property Theory Journal); University of Illinois at Chicago (B.S. in Biological Sciences and B.A. in History magna cum laude 2016)
- Illinois and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Intern, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Summer 2018)
- Extern to Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana (Spring 2019)