Alaina is a patent attorney licensed by the State Bar of Michigan and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is an active member of the Michigan Intellectual Property Inn of Court. She graduated from Wayne State University Law School in 2024 where she served as the President of the Wayne Intellectual Property Student Association and the Executive Note and Comment Editor of Wayne Law Review. Her Note “Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why Federal Courts Can and Should Apply a Would Standard to the Non-obviousness Requirement of Design Patent Law” was published by the Wayne Law Review.
Alaina earned her Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Grand Valley State University. During her time at Grand Valley, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant and conducted research regarding the pathogenicity of Candida albicans. Before joining the firm, she completed an internship at Karmanos Cancer Institute where she studied TMPRSS13, a transmembrane protease, and its relation to breast cancer.
State Bar of Michigan
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Published by Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan Journal, “Redefining Design Patent Obviousness: Early Consequences of LKQ” 2025
Published by Wayne Law Review, “Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why Federal Courts Can and Should Apply a World Standard to the Non-obviousness Requirement of Design Patent Law” 2024
Placed second in the Midwest regional round of the USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition 2023
Juris Doctor, Wayne State University Law School, 2024
Bachelor of Science Cell and Molecular Biology, Grand Valley State University, 2020
Michigan Intellectual Property Inn of Court
President of Wayne Intellectual Property Student Association, 2023-204
Executive Note and Comment Editor of Wayne Law Review, 2023-2024