Melissa S. Dillenbeck is an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. In her practice, Melissa focuses on a diverse range of intellectual property matters, including trademarks, copyrights, information technology and advertising substantiation and promotion law.  Melissa's experience in trademark matters includes prosecution, enforcement, and trademark infringement litigation, and she has also had extensive experience with domain name infringements and disputes.  She also assists clients with protection and enforcement of copyrighted works, including sculptures and literary works.

Melissa graduated with honors in 2001 from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she worked as a teaching assistant for First-Year Legal Writing.  She also externed with the Honorable Sidney I. Schenkier, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  She has a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from Northwestern University.

Melissa is a former competitive figure skater and is now a sectional-level judge for U.S. Figure Skating.  She is currently the Regional Vice Chair for Judges for the Upper Great Lakes region, overseeing figure skating judges in eight states, including Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and serves on U.S. Figure Skating's Sanctions and Eligibility Committee.  She is the former Secretary of the Skating Council of Illinois.