Patrick Medley is an associate in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he specializes in intellectual property protection. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and contested proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patrick has represented companies and institutions in a variety of industries, including software, networking, imaging, electronic devices, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

Prior to joining the firm, Patrick worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of physics at Stanford University, where he conducted research to investigate collective interactions in clouds of ultracold atoms. For his doctoral research at MIT, Patrick developed new methods of thermometry and refrigeration for use on atoms in optical lattice systems.