Amanda V. Letney

Amanda Letney is an intellectual property associate in Dickinson Wright’s Lansing office who focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and patent prosecution. She advises clients on patentability, invalidity, and IP enforcement matters and represents clients in patent and trademark disputes. Amanda also brings in-house experience: as Associate General Counsel for a growing technology company, she handled commercial agreements, AI-related policy development, and intellectual property strategy.

Amanda earned her B.S. in Biology from the University of Florida; her M.S.L. focused on patent law and prosecution from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; and her J.D. from Florida State University College of Law. She previously summered with Dickinson Wright and joined the firm as an associate in 2023 before gaining additional experience as in-house counsel.

• Represents a plaintiff in patent infringement litigation in the Northern District of Texas
• Represents a defendant in patent infringement litigation in the District of New Jersey
• Represents plaintiffs in trademark infringement litigation in the District of Nevada and the Central District of California
• Conducts prior art searches and patent clearance analyses for a large products corporation
• Evaluates potential infringement and prepares patent and trademark infringement notice letters for clients
• Represented a plaintiff in trademark infringement litigation in the Eastern District of Michigan, handling discovery, deposition preparation, dispositive and Daubert motions, and trial preparation before reaching a favorable settlement
• Represented a plaintiff in patent infringement litigation in the Eastern District of Texas, including discovery, depositions, dispositive and Daubert motions, pretrial argument, witness preparation, and trial examination before reaching a favorable settlement
• Prepared for trial on behalf of the defendant in patent infringement litigation in the Eastern District of Texas, including pretrial and trial examination preparation before reaching a settlement