Donika P. Pentcheva
Westman Champlin & Koehler PA
Donika Pentcheva is a patent attorney at Westman, Champlin & Koehler, P.A. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was born and raised in Bulgaria. In 1999, she received Green Card through the U.S. Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, allowing her to immigrate to the United States where she obtained degrees in engineering, mathematics and political science from the University of St. Thomas, and received a Presidential Scholarship to attend William Mitchell College of Law, where she obtained her law degree. Donika is the District Representative of the State of Minnesota and the State of Wisconsin to the American Bar Association. She was recently appointed to serve as Assistant Council Contact to the ABA Young Lawyers Division Council. Donika is the Chair of the Patent Legislation Committee in the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, where she is tasked with overseeing and assisting in the development of ABA policy on pending federal legislation relating to U.S. patent laws. Donika was appointed as an Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission's Study Committee on Bad Faith Patent Demand Letters, which is charged with considering the need for and feasibility of enacting uniform or model state legislation concerning bad faith patent demand letters. Donika is the President of the Board of Directors of Merrick, Inc., the third largest private adult day services corporation in Minnesota.
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