Allison Williamson

Associate Intellectual Property

Chicago +1 312 862 4503

Allison Williamson

Overview

Allison Williamson is an intellectual property litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2022

Summer Associate, Dentons Davis Brown, 2021

Patent Agent, Holland & Hart LLP, 2015–2020

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Author, “Claim and Switch: Is Assignor Estoppel Still Material After Minerva?” Journal of Corporation Law, 2023

Co-Author, “Who Appeals (and Wins) Patent Infringement Cases?” Houston Law Review, 2022 

Co-Author, “Short Synthetic Terminators for Improved Heterologous Gene Expression in Yeast,” ACS Synthetic Biology, 2015

Co-Author, “Design of Synthetic Yeast Promoters via Tuning of Nucleosome Architecture,” Nature Communications, 2014

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2023, Illinois
  • Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Courts

  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Education

  • University of Iowa College of LawJ.D.with Distinction2023

    Journal of Corporation Law

    Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Analysis, Writing and Research & Technology in Law Practice 

    Jurisprudence Award, Academic Excellence in Patent Prosecution Seminar

  • University of Texas at AustinB.S., Chemical Engineering2016