Audra applies a strategic and creative approach to helping clients achieve their business goals. She understands and navigates complex legal issues relating to utility and design patents, trade dress, trademarks, and copyrights. She has counseled industry-leading clients on procuring protectable IP rights and enforcing those rights.
Audra has also represented clients in dozens of IP cases in federal courts across the country and before the International Trade Commission, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has also assisted clients in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S Courts of Appeals. Illinois Super Lawyers named Audra a “Rising Star” in Intellectual Property Litigation. She was also a member of the litigation team for a case named “Impact Case of the Year” by Managing Intellectual Property.
Audra served as in-house counsel for a Fortune 100 company where she helped manage a global trademark portfolio. She is also a contributing author to the Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook published by Bloomberg BNA.
Before joining Banner Witcoff, Audra researched gene mutations at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Biomedical Research Facility. She also worked as a Field Claims Specialist Intern for Monsanto Corporation.
Audra earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri, graduating with Honors. She earned her J.D. from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M University School of Law), graduating summa cum laude.
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