McAndrews Elects New Partner, Sean Sparrow
10.27.25
McAndrews, Held & Malloy is pleased to announce the election of Sean Sparrow to Partner. Sean practices in all areas of intellectual property law. He has extensive experience in protecting and analyzing design rights. His work in that area includes drafting and prosecuting design patent applications, rendering infringement and invalidity opinions, and counseling clients on design-arounds. Sean also has considerable experience drafting and prosecuting utility patent applications and trademark applications across a range of technological fields and industries.
Sean has successfully represented Fortune 500 companies in patent litigation in federal district courts, inter partes review proceedings before the USPTO, and appeals before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has experience in all areas of litigation, including motion practice, briefing, discovery, depositions of technical experts, and PTAB oral arguments. Sean graduated first in his class and summa cum laude from DePaul University College of Law. Prior to law school, Sean earned his Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from the University of St. Augustine. He also earned his Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Augustana College.