Admitted to Practice | California, 2001 | | U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2002 | | U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2001 | | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999 |
| Seth Levy, a patent attorney with a background in biological engineering, focuses on supporting technology transfer programs at academic institutions and working with technology-based companies across a range of matters. Seth represents clients in patent procurement, licensing and enforcement; in the coordination of complex research arrangements and resolution of related disputes; and in the negotiation of commercial transactions involving intellectual property.
Practice Highlights
- Manages patent procurement for innovations in a variety of technical fields, including biotechnology and life sciences
- Represents academic institutions in licensing intellectual property to the private sector and in structuring sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements and inter-institutional agreements with nonprofit and for-profit collaborators
- Represents emerging companies in intellectual property licensing and acquisitions
- Supports intellectual property due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions for biotechnology and consumer products companies
- Serves as outside general counsel for early-stage technology companies
Selected Experience Serving as general counsel to nonprofit organization focused on addressing the challenges of LGBT teen suicide, bullying, and harassment. Learn more about the project at www.itgetsbetter.org. (Ongoing) Preparing and prosecuting patent applications for Caltech in areas such as neural prosthetics, petroleum engineering and nanotechnology. (Ongoing) Prosecuting patent applications and providing transactional due diligence support in connection with proprietary medical devices and consumer products, including the company's MyClyns brand of germ-fighting products, described here: www.myclyns.com. (Ongoing) Preparing and prosecuting patent applications for an animal microchip management system. (Ongoing) Preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications for the company's consumer products. (Ongoing) Handling domestic and foreign patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing, and a variety of research-oriented agreements for a wide range of biotechnical and medical technologies developed at Cedars-Sinai. Supporting Cedars-Sinai's technology transfer operations, and providing strategic counseling to enable Cedars-Sinai to protect, leverage and enforce its intellectual property assets. (Ongoing) Providing patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling services for a range of medical and hospital-based technologies. (Ongoing) Negotiated a research and licensing arrangement among a multistate nonprofit health system, its spinoff company and a large international pharmaceutical company to further research, develop and commercialize certain cancer-related technology. (2011) Represented a not-for-profit health system in structuring a settlement and license agreement with a large biotechnology company, resulting in the withdrawal of an opposition by the company to a European patent owned by the health system and the licensing of the subject technology to the company for research and development purposes. (2010) Represented a not-for-profit regional health system in the Pacific Northwest in forming a venture focused on the research and development of medical isotope technology. (2010) Represented a Korean university in establishing a research arrangement with a psychiatric facility associated with a private U.S. university, to conduct collaborative research in stem cell programming factors. (2010) Represented developer of battery recycling technology in the sale of intellectual property assets and cross-licensing of technology with an international secondary lead producer with operations in the U.S. and abroad. (2009) Represented a privately held medical device company in selling its catheter tip placement business and technology to Bard Access Systems, a division of C.R. Bard, Inc., and among the largest manufacturers and distributors of vascular access devices. (2009) Negotiated a license to retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) technology—a stem cell technology useful in treating certain diseases of the eye, and anticipated to be among the first stem cell therapies to receive FDA approval to go into clinical trials. You can read more in this Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. press release. (2009) Conducted due diligence in connection with potential financing of ongoing patent litigation in the area of Internet sales. (2009) Additional Qualifications Professional and Community Activities
- Board of Directors, OneJustice
- Board of Directors, ACLU Foundation of Southern California
- Past President, Board of Directors, HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
- Immediate Past Chair, Life Sciences Practice Group, American Health Lawyers Association
- Board of Directors, Artists Give Back
- Planning Committee, Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Western Region Meeting, 2009-2011
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Professional Recognition
- Named as one of the Daily Journal's "25 Leading Biotech Lawyers in California," 2011
- Named as one of the Daily Journal's “Top 20 Under 40” lawyers in California, 2011
- Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" in Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial (California) by Chambers USA, 2009-2011
- Selected to “Southern California Rising Stars” in Intellectual Property, Law & Politics, 2008-2010
- Named one of the “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40,” National LGBT Bar Association, 2010
- Inaugural recipient, Paul Davis Memorial Award for outstanding leadership in pro bono work, University of Southern California Law School, 2004
- Jack Berman Award of Achievement, recognizing a young lawyer who has provided outstanding service to the legal profession and public, as well as dedication to issues of concern to new and young lawyers, California State Bar, 2005
- Star of the Year award, 2002, 2006 and 2009; Star of the Quarter award, 2004, 2005 and 2007; ABA Young Lawyers Division
- Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services, four-time recipient, California State Bar
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Education J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 2001 B.S., Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Cornell University, 1998, cum laude | |