Brenda Flockhart is a technology specialist in the Patent Law and Intellectual Property Practice Groups in the Boston office of Proskauer Rose LLP.

Brenda received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University in 2003 and is a candidate for Juris Doctor at Suffolk University Law School (2009). She is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Brenda assists clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights both in the U.S. and abroad. Her areas of concentration include: patent prosecution; product clearance; patent validity and infringement analyses; and intellectual property due diligence in corporate transactions. She has also participated in litigations involving patent disputes.

She has experience in the technology fields of distributed simulations and system analysis, microelectronics, semiconductor physics, digital signal processing, computer logic design, and electro-magnetics.

Prior to becoming a technology specialist, Brenda was a systems engineer at Raytheon. While at Raytheon, she was involved in various aspects of systems engineering including, command and control algorithm and requirements design and analysis as well as simulation design, integration and analysis for the Ballistic Missile Defense System, the Sea Based X-Band Radar, and DDX, the next generation of Naval destroyers.

While at Boston University, Brenda designed a ferromagnetic magnetic field sensor, exploiting Giant Magneto Impedance and a 32-bit computer capable of reading and writing from memory and performing basic arithmetic operations using Cadence and Verilog.