Diana Mederos, Esq.

Biography

 Bar Admissions

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Florida
• ​Texas
  
• Federal Courts:
  • Eleventh and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals
  • Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
  • Eastern and Western Districts of Texas

Diana Mederos is a New Yorker by birth, Floridian by location, and Texan at heart. Diana is an innovative adviser and outside general counsel to inventors, startups, and small businesses.  Diana has been licensed to practice law in Florida since 2012 and has worked alongside many other attorneys in the Jacksonville and Miami metropolitan areas. Prior to law school, Diana spent three years working as a certified graduate-level writing consultant and editor of a bi-monthly publication.

In law school, Diana gained a coveted spot on the top-ranked Florida Coastal Moot Court Honor Board, winning and becoming an out-round finalist in various nationwide moot court competitions before federal district court judges.  Diana also obtained specialization certificates in Advanced Legal Research, Writing, and Drafting and in Environmental Law.  Diana was also honored for her pro-bono work with the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid in the Children's Advocacy Department.  Diana performed scholarly legal research on the convergence of sprawl, waterworks, and public health and on the problems with the EPA and the FDA in regulating Triclosan and what the future holds for human and environmental health.

While at the University of Florida, Diana worked as a research assistant in an immunology laboratory and in a nuclear magnetic resonance laboratory where she researched the relative in vitro stimulatory effect of mutant and wild-type isolated lipoteichoic acid and comparative metabolic profiling with the use of carbon 13 and proton NMR probes.  Diana  furthered her technical expertise by earning a Master's in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Diana's undergraduate honors thesis research was on sediment toxicity, invasive species eradication methods, streamflow hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, historical watershed mapping with geographic information systems, and water quality analyses based on biogeochemical parameters.  Diana graduated in the top 10% of her class and became a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Beta Beta national honor societies.

Diana now works alongside her husband, EU and German patent attorney, Dr. Michael Plevan (plevanltd.com). Diana and Michael provide a one-stop shop for all your US, UK, and EU intellectual property needs. 

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Professional Affiliations

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Biotech and Patent subsections
  • ​Women in IP subsections
• American Chemical Society
  • Committee on Patents and Related Matters
    • Legislation and Regulation Subcommittee
• Florida Bar Business Law and International Law Sections
• Texas Bar Intellectual Property and Business Law Sections
  
• ​National Association of Cosmetic Chemists

Education

• University of Florida College of Pharmacy--M.S. Pharmaceutical Chemistry 
• University of Florida College of Medicine--Graduate Studies in Biomedical Science
• Florida Coastal School of Law--Doctor of Jurisprudence
• Texas A&M International University--B.S. Environmental Science/Biology