About Hilary J.
Hilary J. Sumner earned a B.S. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1993. She returned to the same campus for law school and graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2009, where she studied business and intellectual property law. The two degrees set a clear path: a technical grounding followed by legal training aimed at technical and commercial problems.
Her early years were shaped by engineering. That background led naturally to work involving patents and technical counseling. After law school she began representing inventors and companies on matters that often require both legal and engineering judgment. Cases and filings in patent law rely on a comfort with technical detail, and she brings that to client matters.
Sumner is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is licensed in Pennsylvania. She holds membership in the Lebanon County Bar Association, a connection she has maintained since 2011. Those credentials reflect a practice that sits at the intersection of law and technology and serves both individual inventors and businesses.
Her work spans patent prosecution and related intellectual property issues. She prepares and files patent applications, counsels clients on portfolio strategy, and advises on patentability and freedom-to-operate questions. Business law training informs transactional and licensing discussions that often accompany IP work. Clients encounter both prosecution and commercial issues, and her practice addresses that range.
Today she operates from the Law Office of Hilary J. Sumner. The office serves clients who need patent preparation and prosecution, patent counseling, and related business-oriented IP advice. Her engineering education continues to influence her approach to technical matters, and her legal training guides interactions on licensing and commercial IP questions. She focuses her practice on patent and intellectual property matters and on legal work that bridges technology and business.
