Jennifer M. Heywood is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Electronics Practice.
Prior to joining Foley, Ms. Heywood was a patent attorney at a Midwestern-based law firm where she drafted PCT patent applications; drafted non-provisional and provisional U.S. patent applications; and assessed technological advances to determine patentability. She was also an intern in the intellectual property department at Rockwell Automation.
During law school, she was a legal intern for the Internal Revenue Service and a judicial intern for the Honorable Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Ms. Heywood also served as a law clerk where she researched general litigation issues and drafted general pleadings.
Ms. Heywood earned her law degree, with honors, from Marquette University Law School in 2006. She received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 2009 and a bachelor's degree in journalism and legal studies, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Heywood is a recipient of the Claude and Dora Richardson Scholarship and the Electrical Engineering Centennial Scholarship.
As a law student, Ms. Heywood co-authored, "The Wisconsin Supreme Court Chooses Not to Reel in the Economic Loss Doctrine," which was published in the Wisconsin Civil Trial Journal.
Ms. Heywood is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.