Representative Experience
Preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications for biotech, biomedical, medical device, mechanical and software inventions

Strategic management of patent portfolios, IP business strategies and IP legal opinions

IP licensing, including patent licensing

IP due diligence and audits

Intellectual property litigation support relating to patent and trademark infringement, and inventorship issues

Prior Experience
Director, Molecular Immunology/Transgenics Department at Immunex Corporation, Seattle – including strategic planning, research project design and implementation and general policy development

Consultant for matters relating to biotech and biomed patent prosecution and strategic patent support and analysis

Litigation clerkship, Washington Attorney General’s Office

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association

Washington State Patent Law Association

Member, American Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Association

Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Postdoctoral fellow, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research in Strasbourg, France; Senior postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Health

Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 2000

Ph.D in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Washington