Samuel A. Raque (Sam)
Samuel Raque is an attorney in the firm's Nashville office where he is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. His practice focuses on intellectual property and patent law. He is a Registered U.S. Patent Attorney.
While a judicial law clerk with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Samuel prepared draft decisions for inter partes review trials and for ex parte patent appeals.
cum laude
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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Cali Award in Patent Law
cum laude
Minor in Economics
University of Louisville J.D. Speed School of Engineering
Before joining Stites, Samuel was a judicial law clerk with the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Alexandria, Virginia (2020-21) and Mechanical Patent Examiner with the USPTO Patent Examining Corps TC 3700. He also has engineering experience through co-ops with Advanced Solutions Inc. Life Sciences, University of Louisville Rapid Prototyping Center and Peptides International Inc.
Samuel enjoys exploring the outdoors and riding bikes around the city with his wife Katelyn. He is always looking for new and interesting places around Nashville.