Alexandra Pechhold

Alex is a registered patent attorney (J.D. George Washington University Law School, ’06) and practices all aspects of patent prosecution, portfolio management, opinion work, and intellectual property transactions, including patent licensing and patent sales. She has experience working across a wide variety of technologies, including mechanical and civil engineering, medical devices, industrial and automotive technologies. 

After graduating with a B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, Alexandra began her career in IP as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in mechanical arts. Prior to joining Rutgers, she worked as a patent attorney at an IP law firm in New York City, and was previously at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC in Washington DC. Alexandra’s work has included prosecuting patent applications in mechanical and automotive technologies and preparing patentability, validity, and infringement opinions and negotiating licenses.  

Upon being awarded the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program, a one-year professional exchange program in Germany, Alexandra worked at the German Ministry of Justice and at Siemens AG. She continued in-house as Licensing Counsel in patent sales and licensing at Siemens AG in Munich, Germany and then at Siemens Corporation in Iselin, New Jersey. Her work at Siemens involved IP business development including patent monetization, evaluation, and exploitation strategies, portfolio mining, claim charting, commercial valuation, risk analysis, and negotiating terms of licensing agreements and NDAs. Alexandra speaks both English and German. 

In her free time, Alexandra is busy with her two daughters and loves the outdoors, including hiking and traveling throughout the world. She also enjoys playing tennis and the flute.