![]() ![]() She has structured technology-related agreements such as asset- and technology-transfer agreements, patent and trademark assignments, licenses and joint venture and collaboration agreements. Melissa’s corporate and transactional IP experience includes evaluating, structuring, and managing commercial transactions, including IP due diligence for stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, and strategic alliances involving US, foreign and multinational corporations. As an attorney registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office, Melissa has also counseled clients in all aspects of IP procurement and enforcement, including providing strategic advice regarding freedom to operate, patent prosecution and portfolio management. She also has experience with § 337 investigations before the US International Trade Commission. Melissa has represented clients in federal district courts, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. She has experience in a wide range of technologies including medical devices, pharmaceutical and chemical products, consumer products, software, mobile devices and industrial machinery. A registered patent attorney with a background in engineering, Melissa focuses her practice on patent litigation, procurement and counseling, and intellectual property transactions. ![]() “These things just don’t make sense to me,” he said, adding that his mother’s roommate has not responded to the family’s questions since they got together to discuss the case over coffee in 2019.Melissa Anyetei is an Intellectual Property partner in Mayer Brown’s Chicago office. The roommate told authorities that the woman who picked Melissa up was wearing white gloves, sunglasses and a bonnet around her head in the middle of August in Texas, Jeff explained. Later on, the prospective babysitter called Alta and expressed her interest in the job, saying she had a big yard and cared for other children.Īlta hired the babysitter, who picked up the 21-month-old toddler when she was in the care of Alta’s roommate while the young mother was waitressing. A woman responded to the ad and agreed to meet Alta at the restaurant where the young mother worked but never showed up. Jeff and Melissa’s mother, Alta, who was recently separated in when she moved to Fort Worth and worked as a waitress in the 1970s, had placed an advertisement in the local newspaper for a babysitter to watch over Melissa - her firstborn - at the time. Since we’ve been back, we’ve had four different leads that we have somebody following up on,” Jeff said of the South Carolina trip. “People that live in the area are pretty familiar with the case now. The case has garnered media attention from local outlets in both Texas and South Carolina. “Two of the ladies that we did meet when we were down there are continuing to try to raise awareness for her in that area.” Melissa Highsmith went missing when she was a toddler in 1971. We did get to network with some great people that live in the area,” Jeff said. “We feel that the trip to Charleston was a good success. The Highsmith family also traveled from the Texas to Charleston in October to talk to locals about the case themselves and spread awareness. ![]() On Nov, 6, for what would have been Melissa’s 53rd birthday, the Highsmith family hosted a “celebration of life” for Melissa at the local police station not far from where she was kidnaped all those years ago. 23, 1971, when she was just 21 months old, according to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which has been working with the Highsmith family to find Melissa and keep her face - a digitally age-progressed face - in the news. Melissa disappeared from Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. “We’re moving closer to finding out where she is and what’s going on.” “We feel like we’re stepping in the right direction,” Jeff Highsmith, Melissa’s 42-year-old brother, told Fox News Digital of the search for his sister more than five decades after she vanished. Now, the family of missing Melissa Highsmith has renewed hope that she may be alive and well today - but they need to keep her name out there in case there are any more possible sightings. In September, an anonymous tipster reported a potential Charleston, South Carolina, sighting of a woman who may have gone missing as a baby from her home in Texas 51 years ago. Missing California mother of two found dead South Carolina tipster reports sighting of missing Melissa Highsmith Family of Melissa Highsmith, toddler taken in 1971, renews search
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