Our ability to provide superior legal representation to technology companies is greatly enhanced by the academic and industry experience of our lawyers in a wide variety of technical and scientific fields, including:

Electrical and Mechanical Arts

The following lawyers and technical specialists have academic degrees and/or professional experience in fields related to electrical and mechanical arts.

Elijah M. Alper, senior ssociate

• AB in computer science, magna cum laude, Harvard University
• Former software design engineer at Microsoft

Thomas E. Anderson, partner

• MSE in electrical engineering, Syracuse University
• BS in electrical engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Former design engineer at General Electric

Peter W. Baik, senior associate

• MS in electrical engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• MS in computer science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• BE in electrical engineering, pre-med, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in State of New York for electrical engineering discipline
• Former software engineer with IBM Global Services; developed and tested interactive web application/software for data network management systems. Also worked with AT&T Research Laboratory to design object-oriented application/software for AT&T data communication systems.
• Former electrical engineer with Raytheon Systems Company; developed and tested control software for weapons systems, including: Mk-41, Mk-48 Vertical Missile Launching System (VMLS), Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Launching System, Relocatable Over The Horizon Radar (ROTHR) System, and Tri-band (T3) Mobile Satellite Communications System; also supported live missile firing tests at sea for Mk-48 VMLS
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Steven D. Barrett, partner

• SB in mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Michael J. Bevilacqua, partner

• MS in computer science, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• BS in computer science and mathematics, cum laude, University of Scranton
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Dana O. Burwell, associate

• BSE in biomedical engineering, Duke University 

David L. Cavanaugh, partner

• BME in mechanical engineering, Villanova University
• Former senior patent counsel at Boston Scientific Corporation
• Former electro-mechanical arts patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Jennifer Chen, senior associate

• BA in computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley
• Former software engineer and technical consultant

Tim Cho, technology specialist

• PhD in electical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joseph B. Conahan, counsel

• BS in physics, Georgetown University

Ronald R. Demsher, counsel

• MS in electrical engineering with a focus on microwave applications, University of Massachusetts
• BS in electrical engineering, Ohio State University
• Former electrical engineer for fourteen years
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Peter M. Dichiara, partner

• BS in computer engineering, summa cum laude, Boston University
• Holds a US patent for a circuit design
• Former in-house counsel for Motorola; prepared and prosecuted patent applications relating to asynchronous transfer mode networking, analog modems and multimedia and Internet related software
• Former senior hardware engineer and senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation; designed CPU and I/O related logic and developed firmware
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Michael A. Diener, partner

• SB in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Christopher B. Field, staff attorney

• BS in engineering mechanics, Pennsylvania State University

Robert F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., special counsel

• MS in environmental management, University of San Francisco
• BS in civil engineering, Tufts University

Lauren B. Fletcher, partner

• BS in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office  

Richard Goldenberg, partner

• MS in systems engineering, Boston University
• BS in electrical engineering, cum laude, University of Maryland
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Erin Greenfield Mehta, senior associate

• BS in electrical engineering, cum laude, Clemson University

Monica Grewal, partner

• MS in electrical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• BS in engineering, Trinity College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Former engineer at United Technologies Corporation, Hamilton Standard Division; was involved in the advanced testing of the NASA spacesuit and shuttle environmental control systems

Yung-Hoon Ha, senior associate

• PhD in materials science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BSc in materials science and engineering, cum laude, Cornell University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former patent agent at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. in Virginia
• Was a postdoctoral research scientist/fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 2002 to 2004

Joseph F. Haag, partner

• BS in mechanical engineering, Northwestern University
• Former in-house counsel at Walker Digital Corporation, a business solution invention and development company
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Margaux J. Hall, associate

• BS with distinction in management science and engineering, with Honors in civil engineering, Stanford University
• Civil and Environmental Engineer at Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc., where she served as lead junior engineer on infrastructure and design projects in California and Mexico including: technical, legal and financial feasibility study in Tijuana utilities agency; long-term water resource plan for City of San Diego; technical upgrade of Marine Corps Air Station.

Eric P. Hanson, senior associate

• BS in computer science from Case Western Reserve University
• University of Washington - Breast Care & Cancer Research Center: designed and developed research databases to facilitate data management and analysis in clinical trials
• VMC Consulting: Bilingual Functional Game Tester
• Software Development Experience: SQL, Java, C/C++, VB, Assembly Language, Perl, HTML

Barry J. Hurewitz, partner

• AB in computer science, cum laude, Duke University

Samir Jain, partner

• BS in symbolic systems, focus on artificial intelligence and computer science, Stanford University

Jeffrey P. Johnson, partner

• MS in spatial information science and engineering, University of Maine
• BS in surveying engineering, highest distinction, University of Maine

Belinda M. Juran, partner

• BS in mathematics, summa cum laude, University of Scranton
• Former software engineer and engineering manager at Honeywell Information Systems/Bull HN Information Systems
• Former software quality specialist at Cadence Design Systems
• Marketing officer for 3D display developer, Eastern Delta (now Actuality Systems) during its prize-winning participation in the 1997 MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
• Co-founded a consulting company providing services to high technology clients

Wayne M. Kennard, partner

• BS in computer science and operations research, US Naval Academy
• Former chief patent counsel for Pacesetter Systems, a medical electronics company
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Omar Khan, senior associate

• MS in electrical engineering, with honors, Johns Hopkins University
• BS in biomedical engineering, with honors, Johns Hopkins University

Adit Khorana, partner

• BS in computer sciences and engineering, summa cum laude, Purdue University

Theodoros Konstantakopoulos, senior technology specialist

• PhD in electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MS in electrical engineering and Computer Science
• Diploma in electrical engineering and computer engineering, University of Patras
• Former intern with Cypress Semiconductor in Nashua, New Hampshire; developed a control network for programmable devices, performed timing and energy analysis and performed a design and feasibility study for differential design logic as part of a team of six engineers
• Former research assistant, MIT Computer Architecture Group
• Former research assistant, MIT Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems Group

Tyler Lacey, associate

• BS in software engineering, with distinction, University of Waterloo
• Former software engineer for Google, Sybase and Evertz Microsystems
• Former manufacturing systems support associate at Farris Engineering

Derek S. Lam, associate

• MEng in electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS in computer science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Former software engineer for IBM Corporation; multiple patents and pending applications based on his results at IBM

James B. Lampert, senior counsel

• SB in mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Teneshia C. Lewis, senior staff attorney

• BS in science and technology studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Haixia Lin, associate

• MEng in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
• BS in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
• Former research assistant in the Laboratory for Information Decision Systems at MIT
• Former teaching assistant for courses in dynamic programming, discrete stochastic processes and probabilistic systems analysis at MIT
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 

Cosmin Maier, senior associate

• MSE in electrical engineering, University of Michigan
• BSE in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, University of Michigan

Evelyn C. Mak, partner

• BS in electrical engineering, cum laude, Cornell University
• Former technical advisor and patent agent with Fish & Neave LLP in New York City
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Jeremy T. Marr, counsel

• AB in computer science and psychology, magna cum laude, Dartmouth College
• Former Vice President of Client Services for Orbital Software (now Sopheon PLC)
• Was also Vice President of Technical Marketing for Adapt Technology
• Worked as a software engineer/engineering manager and later as Vice President of Product Marketing/Director of International Distributor Operations for Cortex Corporation (now Attunity Ltd.)

Dominic E. Massa, partner

• BS in electrical engineering, Cornell University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Corey McCaffrey, associate

• MEng in electrical engineering and computer sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS in computer science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Former software engineer at IBM; IBM Invention Achievement Award winner for multiple patents and pending patent applications
• Former lead developer for StarLogo TNG

James H. Millar, partner

• BS in civil engineering, Colorado State University

Sarah Lowe Murphy, senior associate

• BA in mathematics and economics, Trinity College; Phi Beta Kappa
• Former analyst with Analysis Group, Inc.; developed financial models and performed econometric estimation

Cory Lamont Myers, senior associate

• BS in electrical engineering, Morgan State University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Former tester and engineer at IBM Corp: Developed test cases for video content management software, test IBM HTTP and WebSphere Application Server, and developed fixes for network problems in a VMS environment
• Former engineering Intern at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: Developed computer program to analyze digital signal processing techniques
• Former engineering Intern at National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA): Participated in the development and manufacture of space flight circuitry

Andrea Pacelli, senior associate

• PhD in electrical engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Milan
• MS and BS in electrical engineering, cum laude, Polytechnic Institute
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Former assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Stony Brook University
• Former patent agent and science advisor at King & Spalding, Goodwin Procter and Kenyon & Kenyon

Nandan R. Padmanabhan, associate

• BSE in computer engineering, summa cum laude, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor College of Engineering
• Former technical officer with JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Silena Y. Paik, senior associate

• MEng in applied and engineering physics, Cornell University
• BA in astrophysics and mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
• Former researcher with the Department of Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University
• Former researcher with the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility
• Former researcher with the Nanobiotechnology Center
• Former researcher with the University of California Department of Physics
• Former researcher with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the Advanced Light Source

Nimit Y. Patel, senior associate

• BA in mechanical engineering, Dartmouth College
• Former mechanical engineer at Trentec in Cincinnati, OH: reviewed calculations and wrote installation and maintenance manuals for instruments used at a nuclear waste plant

John P. Pettit, senior associate

• MS in computer science, Stanford University
• BS in computer engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Extensive computer and database programming - has worked for Manhattan Associates (formerly Evant), LogicTier, Electronic Arts and Oracle Corporation
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 

Timothy J. Perla, counsel

• BA in computer science and psychology, State University of New York at Geneseo

Leonard A. Pierce, partner

• BS in management information systems with a computer science specialty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Grant K. Rowan, partner

• BS in electrical engineering, University of Maryland
• Former electrical engineer with NASA, where he designed and simulated a high-speed data-monitoring system and designed software for a portion of the Earth Observation Satellite
• Former engineering assistant with Engineering and Economics Research, Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corporation
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Carolyn M. Rucci, associate

• BS in computer science, with honors, Trinity College

Michael Y. Saji, associate

• MS in computer science, Tufts University
• BA in computer science, cum laude, Harvard University
• Former research scientist at Endeca Technologies; developed new user interfaces for semantic clustering search applications
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Heather D. Schafroth, senior associate

• PhD in chemical engineering, Princeton University, 2003
• BS in chemical engineering, Iowa State University, 1996, Tau Beta Pi Laureate
• Former National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award individual postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Cornell University
• Held a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship at Princeton University
• Member of the American Chemical Society and is a senior fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Nancy L. Schroeder, associate

• BS in chemical engineering and biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Former research associate with US Genomics 

Brian M. Seeve, senior associate

• AB in computer science, cum laude, Harvard College
• Former software consultant with Aptify, Inc.; worked in team to design and implement database systems for nonprofit membership organizations

David R. Smith, senior associate

• SB in aeronautics and astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Former contract system administrator and an in-house system manager in the financial and architectural industries

Michael H. Smith, associate

• BS in electrical ejayngineering, summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles

Victor F. Souto, special counsel

• BS in electrical engineering, with honors, Rutgers University
• Former senior intellectual property litigation and patent counsel at AT&T Corporation
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 

Keith M. Spence, associate

• BA in applied mathematics and economics, Brown University
• Former research assistant with Crico/RMF 

Todd R. Steggerda, partner

• BS in aerospace engineering, United States Naval Academy

Donald R. Steinberg, partner

• BSE in electrical engineering and computer science, magna cum laude, Princeton University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Christopher M. Straw, senior associate

• BS in computer science and engineering, University of California, Davis
• Designed and developed Internet application server monitoring software using Java and C++ for IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic at Cyanea Systems
• Former senior engineer for core architecture consisted of 100+ high availability servers handling hundreds of millions of transactions daily at Excite@Home

C. Hall Swaim, retired partner

• BS in geophysical engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Gregory P. Teran, partner

• BS in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kyle Turley, counsel

• BS in electrical engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• Former network engineer with The Boeing Company
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Ashutosh Upreti, associate

• BE in electrical engineering, with First Class Honors, University of Auckland
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Worked as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office examining patent applications in surveillance systems, medical imaging, digital watermarking, and other image processing technologies
• Worked as a product development engineer for a medical device company in New Zealand designing electronics for a new medical device used in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

Francesco Valentini, senior associate

• BA in mathematics, Yale University

Wendy Haller Verlander, partner

• SM in mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• SB in mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Dennis Wang, senior associate

• BS in computer science and engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Daniel V. Williams, counsel

• BSME from Rochester Institute of Technology
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Former engineer at IBM, Microelectronics Division; designed machinery for production of printed circuit boards

Shirley Cassin Woodward, partner

• BS in chemical engineering, with honors, University of Texas at Austin

Timothy B. Yoo, senior associate

• BS in applied and computational mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Joseph Yu, associate

• BS in computer science and mathematics, cum laude, Vanderbilt University
• Former applications engineer and business analyst for Sotheby’s

Kathryn Zalewski, counsel

• BS in computer science, Purdue University

Biological and Chemical Arts

The following attorneys and technical specialists have experience in fields related to the biological and chemical arts.

Owen Allen, senior associate

• BA in chemistry, cum laude, Harvard University
• Former research assistant, Harvard Medical School; performed research in laboratory of Christopher T. Walsh in Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology relating to enzymatic mechanisms of an antibiotic polypeptide, using numerous techniques including solid-phase peptide synthesis

Jonathan W. Andron, counsel

• AB in chemistry and physics, cum laude, Harvard University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Corinne Atton, senior associate

• BS in human genetics, with honors, University College London

Barbara A. Barakat, attorney

• BA in chemistry, College of the Holy Cross
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Andrej Barbic, senior associate

• PhD in biophysical chemistry, Yale University
• BA in chemistry, Lawrence University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former graduate researcher and teaching fellow at Yale University; concentrated on DNA research
• Former researcher for a generic pharmaceutical company

• PhD in molecular biology, Boston College
• BS in cell and molecular biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Julie H. Choe, staff attorney

• BS in psychobiology, University of California at Los Angeles

Arthur W. Coviello, senior associate 

• BS with Honors in mathematics-physics, Brown University

Andrew J. Danford, senior associate

• SB in chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christine Duh, counsel

• BS in biological sciences, Stanford University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

MJ Edwards, counsel

• BA in chemistry, cum laude, Carleton College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former analytical chemist at Eli Lilly and Company

Paula J. Estrada de Martin, senior associate

• PhD in cell biology, Yale University
• MPhil in cell biology, Yale University
• MS in biology, California State University at San Bernardino
• BS in biology, California State University at San Bernardino
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Ophthalmology at Cornell Weill Medical College; investigated the sorting and targeting of apical membrane proteins in RPE and MDCK cells.
• Former interned at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland 

Deric X. Geng, technology specialist

• PhD in chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
• BS in chemistry, Peking University
• Researched drug-like molecules that modulate protein targets and pathways implicated in diabetes and metabolic diseases at Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
• Accomplished the total synthesis of anticancer agent aigialomycin D and work as part of a team to design and accomplish the total synthesis of fully synthetic gp120 glycopeptides as anti-HIV vaccine agents as a postdoctoral fellow at the US Army Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Bilyana P. Georgieva, senior associate

• PhD in genetics and development, Cornell University Medical Center
• BS in biochemistry, summa cum laude, Mount Holyoke College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

David A. Giordano, senior associate

• BS in chemistry, Boston College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former research intern with Millennium Pharmaceuticals

H. David Gold, counsel

• MS in watershed management, University of Arizona
• BA in economics and biology, Tufts University
• Former consultant at environmental consulting firms in Cambridge, Tucson and San Francisco

Julia A. Grimes, senior associate

• BSc, first class honours, Imperial College, University of London
• PhD, Imperial College, University of London; thesis research involved the cell biology of cancer metastasis
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Former Howard Hughes Medical Institute post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook; postdoctoral research focused on the regulation of gene expression in the nervous system
• Spent two years working in technology transfer for the Medical Research Council, the UK equivalent of the National Institutes of Health; was responsible for procurement and licensing of the oncology, virology and neuroscience patent portfolios

Andrew B. Grossman, partner

• BA in biological basis of behavior, University of Pennsylvania

Henry H. Gu, counsel

• Candidate for PhD in organic chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
• MS in organic chemistry, Ohio University
• BS in applied chemistry, with honors, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Worked as a patent agent/patent liaison in the patent department of Bristol-Meyers Squibb
• Former pharmaceutical research scientist with Bristol-Meyers Squibb
• Former research chemist at Sanle General Electric Corp. in Nanjing, China
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Holds eight patents/patent pending applications

Bo Han, associate

• BS in biology, highest distinction and highest honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Former research assistant in the Neurology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; investigated the in vitro effects of statins and interferon beta-1a on the inflammatory response in Multiple Sclerosis patients
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Alicia A. Handy, associate

• BS in atmospheric science, State University of New York at Stony Brook

John V. Hobgood, counsel

• BS in chemical engineering, with distinction, Purdue University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former process control engineer in the petrochemical industry
• Former environmental engineer with a chemical plant

Ping Hu, senior associate

• MS in physical chemistry, Darmouth College
• BS in polymer science and engineering, with high honors, Fudan University
• Former software engineer with Polycom, Inc. (formerly PictureTel Corporation)

Michael D. Jay, counsel

• BA in neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley

Andrea Weiss Jeffries, partner

• AB in chemistry, magna cum laude, Duke University

Heather C.P. Jordan, senior associate

• MS in organic chemistry, Emory University
• BA in chemistry, New York University

Amy P. Kaplan, associate

• BA in human biology, Stanford University

William W. Kim, counsel

• PhD in cellular, molecular and biophysical studies, with distinction, Columbia University
• BS in biology, DePaul University
• Norman and Rosita Winston Postdoctoral Fellow and Cancer Research Institute
• Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at the Rockefeller University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Andrew D. King, counsel

• BS in chemical engineering, minor in environmental engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Susan Krumplitsch, senior associate

• SM in immunology and infectious disease, Harvard University, School of Public Health
• BA in psychology, University of California, Los Angeles  

Anna T. Lee, senior associate

• BS in molecular, cell and developmental biology, magna cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles

Hilary K. Libka, associate

• BS in biomedical engineering, cum laude, Columbia University

Nels T. Lippert, partner

• BS in biology, Bethany College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Marguerite R. Lombardo, counsel

• MS in epidemiology, University of Massachusetts

Jane M. Love, partner

• PhD in biology, concentration in molecular biology, University of Pennsylvania
• BA in biology with a minor in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
• Postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Anna E. Lumelsky, senior associate

• BA in biology, magna cum laude, Harvard University

David A. Manspeizer, partner

• Former chief intellectual property officer for Wyeth
• BA in biology, University of Pennsylvania
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Mark D. McBriar, technology specialist

• PhD in organic chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
• MS in organic chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
• BS in chemistry, cum laude, Dickinson College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Kenneth Merber, senior associate

• AB in physics and economics, general honors, University of Chicago

Elizabeth Mitchell, partner

• BS in biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Niki Z. Moore, senior associate

• BS in biology, summa cum laude, Texas Southern University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former senior research assistant with the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; conducted cancer research and gene mutation nalysis
• Former research technician in the Human Genome Sequencing Center and the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine

Thomas Mueller, partner

• BA in chemistry, Williams University

Ryann M. Muir, senior associate

• PhD in molecular biology/biotechnology, University of California, Davis
• Postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis in the section of Neurobiology and Behavior; formulated and tested scientific hypotheses relating to obesity and metabolism
• Former graduate research assistant in the Plant Biology Graduate Group at UC Davis; formulated and tested scientific hypotheses relating to enzymology, biochemistry, molecular biology and small molecule biosynthesis 

Allen C. Nunnally, counsel

• BA in biology and law, Amherst College
• Author of articles on subjects such as patentability in life sciences, patent protection in the biotechnology industry, intellectual property aspects of pharmacogenomics and commercialized genetic testing 

Jacob Steven Oyloe, senior associate

• BS in chemistry, University of Florida
• Former development chemist with Millennium Specialty Chemicals in Jacksonville, Florida; co-invented and implemented a new method for the manufacture of l-Carvone, the main component of spearmint oil, and developed production methods for two Sandalwood aroma chemicals
• Presented with the Millennium Specialty Chemicals' Chairman's Award for excellence in research and development, awarded annually to only ten projects worldwide
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Barish Ozdamar, associate

• PhD in medical genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
• Post-Doctoral Fellow in biochemistry, Cornell University Weill Medical College; investigated the role of cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis and stroke
• Post-Doctoral Fellow in cell biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; research focused on cancer biology and molecular pathways regulating tumor metastasis
• Recipient of Post-Doctoral Fellowships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Award
• Publication record includes four authorships in the journal Science

Larissa Park, counsel

• BA in Physics, Cornell University, 2002
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former research assistant in Vacuum Lab at the Wilson Lab, Cornell University; created computer programs to monitor ion pump effectiveness in the accelerator chamber and repaired vacuum system malfunctions (1999-2001)
• Former research assistant in the Physical Chemistry Lab at the University of Pittsburgh; group Leader of Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program; researched reaction mechanics of excited helium and carbon monoxide via experimentation with a crossed molecular beam apparatus

Heather M. Petruzzi, senior associate

• BS in chemistry, summa cum laude, University of Richmond; Phi Beta Kappa

Natalie R. Pous, associate

• BEng in biomedical engineering, Vanderbilt University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Shahzia M. Rahman, senior associate

• BA in biology, with honors, Brown University

Julie Hogan Rodgers, partner

• BChE, summa cum laude, Villanova University

Jonathan B. Roses, associate

• BA in chemistry, Connecticut College
• American Chemical Society Certified
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former senior research associate at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; worked as medicinal chemist

Ken Sakurabayashi, senior associate

• BA in biochemistry, University of Colorado
• Extensive laboratory experience including DNA-dependent Protein Kinase and Tax protein of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 

Rana Sawaya, technology specialist

• PhD in molecular biology, Cornell University
• MS in microbiology, McGill University
• BS in microbiology and immunology, with Great Distinction, McGill University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Mary Rose Scozzafava, partner

• PhD in inorganic chemistry, Brandeis University
• BS in chemistry, magna cum laude, Lehigh University
• Former research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and at Max-Planck-Institute for Radiation Chemistry, Muelheim, Germany
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Brandon Scruggs, senior associate

• BS in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, Clemson University
• Former chemical engineer and supply planner at ExxonMobil Chemical Company
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Alfred C. Server, partner

• MD and PhD in neurological sciences, Stanford University
• Medical internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
• Neurology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Postdoctoral fellowships in neurovirology and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University
• Former research director of a biotechnology company

Ali H. Shah, senior associate

• PhD in immunology, Northwestern University
• BA in biology, University of Texas at Austin
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office  
• Former research technician at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Genetics and at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Experimental Pathology, Houston, Texas
• Former research assistant in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Doctoral thesis, entitled "Cancer Immunotherapy via Retroviral Blockade of TGF-beta signaling in Leukocytes," completed in 2002 in the laboratory of Dr. Chung Lee, Department of Urology, Northwestern University Medical School

Nishat Shaikh, associate

• BS in biological sciences, cum laude with distinction in research, Cornell University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former biologist at Applied Molecular Evolution; conducted clinical studies of humanized antibody therapeutics

Peter Shen, counsel

• PhD in anatomy and cell biology, University of California, Los Angeles
• BA in genetics, University of California, Berkeley
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Technical experience integrates molecular biology and animal behavior
• Has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented research at scientific conferences

Colleen Superko, partner

• MS in biochemistry, University of Vermont
• BS in biology, Dickinson College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Wendell C. Taylor, partner

• BS in biology, College of William and Mary

Russell Tonkovich, counsel

• MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine
• BS in biochemistry, with honors, University of Wisconsin—Madison
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Michael J. Twomey, partner

• AB in biology, magna cum laude, Harvard College
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in biology
• Graduate Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

George Y. Wang, senior associate

• BA in biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Phi Betta Kappa
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former legal extern for the US Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences

Bill Ward, senior associate 

• PhD in organic and organometallic chemistry, California Institute of Technology
• BS in chemistry, with honors, Principia College

Emily R. Whelan, partner

• AB in chemistry, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Christopher A. Wilber, partner

• BS in botany with an environmental science emphasis, Miami University of Ohio

Jamie T. Wisz, partner

• AB in biology, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office  
• Former biological analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency

Anne-Marie C. Yvon, counsel

• PhD, cum laude, University of Massachusetts
• BA in biology-chemistry, Skidmore College
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office 
• Postdoctoral research of cystoskeletal organization and dynamics, and centrosome repositioning in motile cells

Andrew B. Zoltan, senior associate

• Master of Public Health (MPH), Tufts University School of Medicine
• BS in biology, College of William and Mary
• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Former senior associate scientist with Wyeth Research; developed drug delivery systems for protein based orthopedic therapeutics
• Former research associate with Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics; developed quantitative and stability indicating assays for glycoconjugate vaccines

Last updated April 2012.