About India
India’s areas of practice include intellectual property, technology, business planning, and telecommunications and media. Her practice focuses on assisting clients in protecting their intellectual property, including trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets, and copyrights, as well as advising clients regarding appropriate licensing strategies and related corporate structure and transactional matters. India’s experience includes advising clients in the software, entertainment, bio-technology, health care, banking and finance and manufacturing industries. She is licensed to practice in Alabama (1999) and Georgia (2001).
In addition, India has coordinated a mentoring team for Alabama Launchpad, a nonprofit organization formed by six of Alabama’s research universities and the business community to help fuel the development of high growth companies in Alabama. She also is involved with Birmingham Startup, a group focusing on high-tech entrepreneurs and developers in the area. India regularly conducts seminars on both intellectual property issues and licensing strategies & negotiations.
India is also a member of the Birmingham Venture Club, the Alabama Information Technology Association and the Biotechnology Association of Alabama and has served as a company mentor for the SouthEast Venture Capital Forum. She is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association including the Intellectual Property Section, the Technology Law Section of the Georgia Bar, the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section, the International Trademark Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. India is a member of the Patent Bar (1999).
India received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Clemson University in 1992 and her M.S., in Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University in 1993. Before attending law school, India worked as an Engineer for Michelin Tire Corporation. In 1999, she received her J.D., from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. During law school, she was Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board. She was also a member of the National Moot Court Team, the Cumberland Law Review, the Cordell Hull Speakers Forum and the Order of Barristers.
What is your favorite thing about the law?
Every day is different.
What was your first job?
Babysitting.
What are your hobbies?
I enjoy playing with my cat and working sudokus.
How do you spend your weekend?
Working on my house or in my yard.