Lecturer Bio
Aurelia Mitchell Durant, Esq.
Aurelia Mitchell Durant is an intellectual property and international business attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience helping creators, founders, and companies protect, commercialize, and preserve what they build.
A Partner at Rimon P.C. and attorney of record on more than 500 USPTO filings, Aurelia’s practice includes trademark clearance, prosecution, and portfolio strategy; TTAB proceedings; copyright and chain-of-title matters before the U.S. Copyright Office; licensing and commercialization agreements; and international portfolio management, including a formal alliance with a Legal 500-ranked Indian IP firm.
She taught business law at the graduate level for fourteen years and is the creator of The Ownership Layer™, a strategic framework for examining what a business owns, what it can prove and control, and how its assets can be protected, licensed, and monetized.
Aurelia writes and speaks on ownership in the AI era at aureliamitchelldurant.com and linkedin.com/in/aureliamitchelldurant.