Rachel Dorfner

Rachel Dorfner is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Haynes Boone's Dallas-North office. A registered patent agent, Rachel focuses on patent trials and counseling. Her experience includes patent application drafting, responses to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office actions, prior art and patentability analyses, and proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Rachel has worked on patent matters involving various technologies and engineering disciplines. Her experience includes conducting inventor interviews, evaluating invention disclosures, performing prior art searches, drafting patent applications and claims, and analyzing USPTO Office Actions. She has also researched patent and trade secret litigation issues and developments affecting patent litigation and prosecution strategy.

Rachel earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law, where she was a Senior Staffer for the Intellectual Property Brief and a Deputy Director of Communications for the Student Bar Association. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and has also studied at Bucerius Law School in Germany. Rachel is a co-inventor on a pending U.S. patent application relating to a composition and method for manufacturing an article using additive manufacturing.