Savannah Gabriel
Overview
Savannah is an associate at Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, focusing on both patent litigation and patent prosecution. Savannah was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for six years in a mechanical art unit. She examined a wide range of applications – including respiratory devices, massage devices, exoskeleton devices, and machine learning systems.
Career & Education
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Examiner, 2019–2025
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- The George Washington University Law School, J.D.
- The George Washington University, M.Eng., biomedical engineering
- The George Washington University, B.Sc., biomedical engineering
- District of Columbia
Savannah's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25
Design patents offer protection for the ornamental appearance of a product, focusing on aspects like its shape and surface decoration, as opposed to the functional aspects protected by utility patents. The scope of a design patent is defined by the drawings and any descriptive language within the patent itself. Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit emphasize the need for clarity in the prosecution history of a design patent in order to preserve desired scope to preserve intentional narrowing (and to avoid unintentional sacrifice of desired claim scope).
Savannah's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25
Design patents offer protection for the ornamental appearance of a product, focusing on aspects like its shape and surface decoration, as opposed to the functional aspects protected by utility patents. The scope of a design patent is defined by the drawings and any descriptive language within the patent itself. Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit emphasize the need for clarity in the prosecution history of a design patent in order to preserve desired scope to preserve intentional narrowing (and to avoid unintentional sacrifice of desired claim scope).
