Deborah S. Gladstein joined Nixon & Vanderhye in 2009. She represents numerous high-tech clients and is broadly experienced in prosecuting both foreign and domestic patent applications. She also has experience preparing validity and infringement opinions and counsels clients in intellectual property matters. In addition, Ms. Gladstein participated in a team representing a large electronics company in multiple patent infringement actions before the International Trade Commission and in the Eastern District of Texas.

Ms. Gladstein's technical expertise is in the field of networks, Internet applications, robotics, image retrieval, computer related technologies, including hardware and software architectures, storage devices, applications software, and systems, telecommunications, including optical communications and cellular telephony, semiconductors, including devices, fabrication equipment, and testing equipment, and consumer electronics, including optical storage media, televisions, audio devices, printers and monitors.

She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University in 1991. Prior to receiving her J.D., Ms. Gladstein worked for Sensormatic Electronics as a co-op engineer, where she designed and implemented testing programs for Sensormatic's commercially successful Article Surveillance System. She received a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1996. Prior to joining Nixon & Vanderhye, Ms. Gladstein was Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster.

Ms. Gladstein is admitted to practice in the State of Florida, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Ms. Gladstein is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney.