Samara J. Gallagher

Samara Gallagher is a Science Advisor and registered Patent Agent in the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences Intellectual Property groups and Business Law department. She uses her technical expertise to assist clients with patent drafting and prosecution, M&A transactions, and patentability, freedom-to-operate, and landscape searches. She joined the firm in 2023.

Samara has a technical background in mechanical engineering and biomechanics, with particular technical expertise in areas including medical devices (such as implants, injectors, stents, and meshes, as well as wearable, diagnostic, machine learning, and imaging technologies), robotics, weapons & defense, cosmetics, women’s health, marine vessels, HVAC systems, and motors.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Samara was a Medical Device Research Associate at a boutique patent search firm in Boston, where she gained extensive experience conducting IP searches in support of licensing, prior art, research & development, and litigation. As a graduate student within the Center for Modeling, Simulation, & Imaging in Medicine at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Samara defended her master’s thesis comparing the mechanical properties of burnt human and porcine tissue to aid the United States Army in developing accurate medical training simulators for field medics. 

At Goodwin, Samara is a Culture Champion and Discovering Justice volunteer. Samara is also a member of The Innovators of the Museum of Science in Boston and a member of the Alumni Council for The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, MA.

Michael A. Sadowsky Prize (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2021), awarded “to a master’s degree candidate in mechanics for outstanding scholarship and a demonstrated ability in the application of mechanics.”

Co-Author, “Mechanical behavior of full-thickness burn human skin is rate-independent,” Scientific Reports, 2024

Co-Author, “Thermally damaged porcine skin is not a surrogate mechanical model of human skin,” Scientific Reports, 2022

Co-Author, “Synthetic tissues lack the fidelity for the use in burn care simulators ,” Scientific Reports, 2022

Co-Author, “Evaluate the Fidelity of Synthetic Tissues Used in Escharotomy Simulators. Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials & Micro-and Nanomechanics & Research Applications ,” Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, 2021