Ms. Welch is a registered patent attorney with four decades of computer industry experience as a physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and management scientist. Ms. Welch is associated with the firm as of counsel. She concentrates in the areas of electrical and mechanical arts, business method, and software, and has rendered opinions relating to patentability and infringement issues.
Ms. Welch has worked as a computer scientist at Computer Science Corp.(CSC) for fifteen years where she built several real-time database management systems for handling real-time telemetry and managed all kinds of computer-system implementations – information retrieval systems, spacecraft control centers, inventory systems, linear programming systems, TCP/IP, missile fire control and trajectory, spacecraft loose equipment management, etc. The last project she worked on for CSC, which has implemented her architecture and is running today, was reengineering the database component of the ground control system for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Ms. Welch received a B.S. degree in physics and did graduate studies in mathematics at Brooklyn College in New York and has additionally received a J.D. degree from UMD Law School, an M.S. degree in computer science at UMD College, an M.S.A. degree in information sciences at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. (1981), and a Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Innovation at GWU (1990).