Mary-Jacq Holroyd

Mary-Jacq Holroyd is a registered patent attorney who represents business clients, academic institutions, individual inventors, and startup companies in intellectual property matters. Her practice includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, infringement issues, portfolio analysis, patentability opinions, trademark clearance, and USPTO work. She serves clients throughout West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and beyond, helping them protect inventions, brands, creative works, and technology assets through practical legal guidance.

Holroyd earned a J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law and received American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Criminal Procedure and Commercial Paper. She also received a B.A. in Psychology from West Virginia University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, with graduate study in medicinal chemistry. Her education supports a technical IP practice involving chemical, biological, mechanical, software, and medical device matters.

Holroyd has represented clients exclusively in intellectual property matters since 1994. Her prior experience includes work with McCormick, Paulding & Huber in Massachusetts and Litman Law Offices in Virginia. She has prepared and prosecuted domestic and international patent and trademark applications, drafted software and website licenses, handled patent, trademark, and copyright infringement matters, reviewed copyright needs, and prepared opinions involving patentability, infringement, validity, registrability, clearance, and IP portfolios.

Mary-Jacq Holroyd is admitted in Virginia and Connecticut, registered before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and admitted before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Her professional memberships include the American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and intellectual property sections of Virginia and West Virginia bar groups. Holroyd helps clients manage IP protection with technical understanding and careful preparation.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Johnston Holroyd Intellectual Property Law
• Member, Virginia State Bar

Licensed State

• Virginia

Education

• University of Richmond School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• West Virginia University
  BA in Psychology
• Virginia Commonwealth University
  BS in Chemistry with Graduate in Medicinal Chemistry

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