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Elissa N. Tenenbaum

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Areas of Focus

Overview

Elissa Tenenbaum represents clients in intellectual property matters, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets matters, in federal courts, and before the ITC. Her experience includes drafting motions for patent and trademark litigation and patent and trademark office action responses.

Elissa is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Chicago office, where she splits her practice between the Patent and ITC Litigation and Patent Prosecution groups.

During law school, she was the managing editor of the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property, a member of the school’s Society of Women in Law, and a member of the Intellectual Property Law Society. Elissa was also a law clerk, where she drafted patent and trademark applications.

Career & Education

    • University of Michigan, B.S., cum laude, mechanical engineering, 2018
    • Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 2021
    • University of Michigan, B.S., cum laude, mechanical engineering, 2018
    • Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 2021

    • Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, General Bar
    • Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, General Bar

  • Professional Activities and Memberships

    • American Bar Association, Member
    • Chicago Women in IP, Member 
    • Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Member

    Professional Activities and Memberships

    • American Bar Association, Member
    • Chicago Women in IP, Member 
    • Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Member

Elissa's Insights

Firm News | 2 min read | 05.20.26

Crowell Secures $23.3 Million Jury Verdict for C3.ai in Major Trade Secret Case

Washington – May 20, 2026: Crowell & Moring achieved a decisive victory for leading Enterprise AI application software company C3.ai, obtaining a $23.3 million jury verdict following a seven-day trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The jury unanimously found Cummins liable for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in a suit brought by C3.ai more than two and a half years ago....

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Representative Matters

  • Secured a significant victory (a preliminary injunction against patent infringement through trial) on behalf of Lonza Walkersville, Inc. against Israel-based Adva Biotechnology Ltd. in a case involving point-of-care cell-therapy technology.
  • Secured jury verdict, judgment and eight figure damages award following weeks’ long trial in Delaware Superior Court for c3.ai, a leading Enterprise AI software and application company, in novel matter alleging its former customer, diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., misappropriated c3.ai's trade secrets and breached the parties’ contract by studying c3.ai's trade secrets and replicating them into Cummins' own application.

Elissa's Insights

Firm News | 2 min read | 05.20.26

Crowell Secures $23.3 Million Jury Verdict for C3.ai in Major Trade Secret Case

Washington – May 20, 2026: Crowell & Moring achieved a decisive victory for leading Enterprise AI application software company C3.ai, obtaining a $23.3 million jury verdict following a seven-day trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The jury unanimously found Cummins liable for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in a suit brought by C3.ai more than two and a half years ago....

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Practices

Industries

Elissa's Insights

Firm News | 2 min read | 05.20.26

Crowell Secures $23.3 Million Jury Verdict for C3.ai in Major Trade Secret Case

Washington – May 20, 2026: Crowell & Moring achieved a decisive victory for leading Enterprise AI application software company C3.ai, obtaining a $23.3 million jury verdict following a seven-day trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The jury unanimously found Cummins liable for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in a suit brought by C3.ai more than two and a half years ago....

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