We mourn the passing of our colleague and friend, Angela Holt, who passed away on September 30, 2025. Read more about Angie's legacy and impact in her obituary.

Angela Holt's practice is centered on intellectual property law, and she assists clients in protecting, maintaining, and defending their valuable IP. Angela represents large and small companies and individuals involved in a wide range of business activities, including manufacturers, software developers, data providers, defense contractors, healthcare providers, restaurants, financial institutions, website developers, and entrepreneurs.

Angela is a former electrical engineer with experience working for a major defense and space contractor before becoming a lawyer. As a registered patent attorney, she has obtained patents for her clients in the fields of:

• Virtual realty and augmented reality medical imaging, to allow medical providers to visualize in two-dimensional data and in three-dimensional VR/AR images;
• Medical devices and catheters for performing cardiac procedures;
• Polarization-based sensors and software for mapping, imaging and facial recognition;
• Antennas used by public utilities to monitor metering devices;
• Systems for detecting life by means of CO2 in enclosed volumes such as automobiles;
• Manufacturing processes and equipment; and
• Agricultural and lawncare equipment.

Angela has significant experience litigating intellectual property disputes. Her cases have involved patents, copyrights, trademarks, and domain-names, and she has litigated many inter partes trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She often prepares and prosecutes trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and copyright applications before the U.S. Copyright Office.

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 2002

• United States Patent & Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• United States Court of Federal Claims
• United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama

Education

• University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2002, summa cum laude; Order of the Coif; Senior Editor, Alabama Law Review; Intellectual Property Moot Court Team, 2001-2002; Winner, Saul Lefkovitz Trademark Regional Moot Court Competition, 2002; Hugo Black Scholar; Order of the Barristers
• Auburn University, B.S., Electrical Engineering, with honors