Patent

Protect and Maximize the Value of Your Intellectual Property

Expert Patent Law Services

In over twenty years of patent law experience, I have developed a sophisticated practice focused on the creation of commercial value, including:

  • Clearance searches.
  • Drafting and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications in technologies including chemistry, metallurgy, mechanical systems, optical systems, telecommunications, business methods, and software.
  • License transactions.
  • Due diligence assessments of intellectual property portfolios, including those in support of the $15B acquisition of Organon Biosciences from Akzo and the $43B merger of Scheming-Plough with Merck.
  • Opinions regarding patentability, freedom to operate, infringement, and validity.
  • Cease-and-desist letters and dispute resolution.
  • Trade Commission cases regarding motorized personal watercraft, hydrocarbon processing, and support of ANDA litigations, including those on CLARINEX®, ZETIA®, TEMODAR®, and NOXAFIL®.
  • Maintaining competitive intelligence in key areas of interest.
  • Counseling scientific, commercial, and regulatory clients on patent-related matters.
  • Addressing legal matters associated with the above, including supply agreements, employment agreements, and other contractual matters.
  • Intellectual property portfolio management, making determinations to safeguard the most valuable and abandon the less valuable IP assets.
  • Maintenance of budgets for worldwide patent prosecution.

I hold BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and have 25 years of industry experience in pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbon processing, fluoropolymers, avionics, and jet engines.

Stealth aircraft in flight, side view.
Rocket on launch pad against blue sky.

Papers Delivered

“KABOOM! Recent Misadventures in the Patent World,” delivered at the 2018 National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New Orleans, LA.

“Aqualung Inferred: Inequitable Conduct in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. v Merus N.V.” delivered at the 2019 National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Orlando, FL.

For more information on patents, see

Visit https://www.uspto.gov/patents law experience, I have developed a sophisticated practice focused on the creation of commercial value.