Meredith L. Ainbinder

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Meredith L. Ainbinder is an attorney whose patent litigation work is primarily historical — she is not currently in private IP practice. Her career has moved in-house, and she is now Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Brandeis University (a role she assumed after serving as the university's Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President). Before Brandeis, she was Vice President and General Counsel at Emerson College. Her litigation practice ran roughly nine years at Boston IP boutique Sunstein (formerly Bromberg & Sunstein), where she was an associate and later a partner in the litigation department, followed by a stint as Senior Litigation Counsel at global lighting-technology company Osram Sylvania, managing litigation for its North and South America units. She earned a BA from Brown University and a JD from Boston College Law School.

Focus areas. Her practice description centers on intellectual property and complex business litigation — patent and trademark infringement, false advertising and unfair competition, trade secrets, and copyright/Internet rights. On the technology side, sources reference patent disputes in telecommunications and consumer-products/unfair-competition matters, and her in-house work at Osram involved semiconductor lighting (LED/GaN) technology. She also authored commentary on software licensing and permanent injunctions. Note that the searches did not surface a public practice page devoted to patent litigation (she is no longer at a firm), so the technology description rests on older firm bios and her PTAB appearance rather than current materials.

Side preference. The tracked data show a single appearance, on the defendant side: Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. et al. (W.D. Mo., No. 2:13-cv-04160), where she was admitted pro hac vice for defendants Commerce Bancshares, Inc. and Commerce Bank. This was one of Intellectual Ventures' many 2013 suits against financial institutions, asserting encryption/data-security and mobile-payment patents (e.g., the '574, '694, '084, '409, and '666 patents) against Commerce's PCI Data Security Standard practices. The court stayed the case pending IPR and later, in a 2017 fee decision, denied Commerce's § 285 attorney-fee motion while awarding most of its requested costs. With only one tracked appearance, the counts support no broader conclusion than that her single documented patent matter was defense-side; her earlier practice was mixed plaintiff/defendant commercial and IP litigation.

PTAB / IPR. Her verified PTAB footprint is limited, not a high-volume IPR practice. She appears on the record in IPR2013-00459 (Osram GmbH v. E. Fred Schubert), a semiconductor light-emitting device proceeding, in her Osram Sylvania in-house capacity. The IV case against Commerce involved parallel IPR proceedings, but those petitions were filed by other counsel.

Bar/education. Admitted in Massachusetts (older professional listings also show U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, E.D. Texas, and the Federal Circuit); BA, Brown University; JD, Boston College Law School. Sources are consistent on her career history through Brandeis; the IPR and bar-admission details come from a single older bio and a PTAB transcript, so treat those specifics as less firmly sourced than her firm and in-house employment history.