Overview
Sarah Waidelich is an intellectual property attorney whose practice covers a range of technology, products, and industries, including automotive technology, medical devices, software, electronics, and media. Sarah is dedicated to reaching the best possible business solutions for her clients.
Sarah has experience throughout the entire lifecycle of litigation, from pre-suit analysis and strategy, through discovery and depositions, claim construction, summary judgment, trial, and appeal. She has also worked in aligning litigation strategies between parallel district court litigation and USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. She has participated in several jury trials in the District of Delaware and has argued in the Northern District of California, the District of Delaware, the District of Connecticut, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
In addition to her primary practice, Sarah has been involved in numerous child welfare pro bono cases, including successful appeals to the Michigan Court of Appeals and Michigan Supreme Court.
Sarah is very active in Honigman’s recruiting efforts. She currently serves as a Deputy Summer Associate Hiring Partner and previously served as a Lateral Hiring Partner for Honigman’s Intellectual Property Department. She previously served on Honigman’s Attorney Development Committee and has mentored many junior attorneys at the firm.
Sarah serves on the Board of Trustees of Trine University, her alma mater. She also serves on the Board of MothersEsquire, an organization devoted to supporting lawyer-moms in the legal industry.
Services
Practice Areas
Industries
Experience
Representative Matters
- Successfully argued and secured summary judgment of patent infringement on behalf of patent owner
- Significant trade dress, design patent, and trademark infringement experience
- Argued both discovery and dispositive motions in federal court in patent and copyright infringement actions
- Argued at claim construction hearing in multi-patent infringement litigation
- Significant deposition experience, including fact and expert witnesses with both technical and damages knowledge
- Daneshvar v. Kipke and NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc.: Assisted in defense of patent inventorship claims by plaintiff who claimed to have contributed to defendants’ patents for deep brain stimulation technology (neural probes). Summary judgment for defendants was affirmed on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Served as a judicial intern for Judge Stephen J. Murphy III (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan) while in law school
Prior Experience
- Desmarais LLP, Associate, 2013-2015
Credentials
Education
- magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
- Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude; Women’s Varsity Basketball Team
Admissions
- Michigan
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Recognition
Professional & Community Involvement
State Bar of Michigan
- Intellectual Property Law
Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter
Federal Circuit Bar Association
Board Member, MothersEsquire (2024)
Member, Trine University Board of Trustees (2025)