Lyric Stephenson

Lyric Stephenson is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Haynes Boone. Lyric’s practice focuses on advising clients in a range of patent, trademark, copyright, and design patent matters. She assists clients with preparing and prosecuting U.S., Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and foreign utility and design patent applications and has experience in both domestic and foreign trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement.

Lyric counsels clients across numerous industries, including biotechnology, computer software and hardware, video coding techniques, artificial intelligence and deep learning, medical devices, mechanical devices, and specialty materials.

Before joining the firm, Lyric worked as a research assistant in a scientific computation laboratory and has experience as a research and development engineer at a startup medical device company designing and building vascular closure devices.

During her time in law school, Lyric focused her studies on technology and intellectual property law, where she participated in the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic. There she gained valuable experience in the field of open-source software licensing.