Sean Sparrow is a Partner at McAndrews and practices in all areas of intellectual property law. Sean 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, where he was an Associate Editor for the DePaul Law Review. Prior to law school, Sean earned his Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from the University of St. Augustine. His doctoral research examined the treatment of post-operative scar tissue adhesions that develop on the lumbricals and flexor tendons. 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.

During his career as an occupational therapist, Sean worked in outpatient hand and upper extremity rehabilitation at Loyola Medicine. His practice involved the examination and treatment of patients with upper extremity diagnoses, including fractures, soft-tissue repairs, burns, congenital deformities, sprains, strains, repetitive stress injuries, and nerve compression neuropathies. In addition to treating patients, Sean ran multiple clinical trials and he was also a guest lecturer at Chicago State University for occupational therapy graduate students. His lecture series covered an anatomical review of the hand and custom-made orthoses.