AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

• Counseling
• Litigation
  • Appellate
  • Federal District Court
  • Hatch-Waxman
  • Patent Interferences
• Patent Prosecution
  • Biomedical
  • Biology and Biotechnology
  • Chemical
  • Pharmaceutical

EDUCATION

• The George Washington University Law School, Juris Doctor, 1994
• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1990
• Johns Hopkins University, B.A. in Behavioral Biology, 1984

ADMISSIONS, COURTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Admitted, State of New Jersey
• Admitted, State of New York
• Admitted, District of Columbia
• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Member, American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
• Member, American Bar Association, Interference Subcommittee
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Biotechnology Committee
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Interference Committee
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Liaison between Women in IP Law and Interference Committees
• Member, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Member, Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, CET Group 5-Biotechnology
• Member, Intellectual Property Owners Association
• Member, International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Maryland Patent Law Association
  President 2001-2003; Vice President 1999-2001; Treasurer 1996-1999
• Member, New York Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, U.S. Bar—EPO Liaison Council
  Chair, 2006-2008

PUBLICATIONS

• “The University of Rochester Overreaches,” outs & ins, vol. 4, no. 2, 2004
• Co-author, “Degeneracy in the Legal Code: Can the PTO and the Federal Circuit Reach a Consensus Regarding Patenting Biotech Inventions?,” 4 The Journal of Biolaw and Business 39-42, 2000
• Co-author, “Identification of the Transmembrane Fusion Domain in the Visna Virus Envelope,” 185 Virology 488-492, 1992
• Co-author, “Identification of Cell Membrane Proteins that Bind Visna Virus,” 65 J. of Virology 6137-6143, 1991
• Co-author, “Epitopes Responsible for Fusion and Virus Neutralization in the Glycoprotein of Ovine and Caprine Lentiviruses: A Challenge for Vaccine Development,” AIDS Vaccine: Basic Research and Clinical Trials. Putney, S.D. and D. P. Bolognesi (Eds.). Marcel Dekker, Inc. pp. 319-338, 1990
• Co-author, “Fusion and Neutralization Sites on Visna Virus are Separate Epitopes,” Cell Biology of Virus Entry, Replication and Pathogenesis. Compans, R.W., A. Helenius and M. Oldstone (Eds.). Alan R. Liss, Inc. New York, pp. 1-12, 1989
• Co-author, “Lentiviruses of Animals are Biological Models of the Human Immunodeficiency Viruses,” 5 Microbial Pathogenesis 149-157, 198 8
• Co-author, “Separate Epitopes in the Envelope of Visna Virus are Responsible for Fusion and Neutralization: Biological Implications for Anti-fusion Antibodies in Limiting Virus Replication,” 62 J. of Virology 2680-2685, 1987
• Co-author, “Identification of Chromaffin Granule-Binding Proteins. Relationship of the Chromobindins to Calelectrin, Synhibin, and the Tyrosine Kinase” Substrates p35 and p36, 262 The Journal of Biological Chemistry 1860-1868, 1987
• Co-author, “Mnemonic Correlates of Unit Activity in the Hippocampus,” 399 Brain Res. 97-110, 1986
• Co-author, “An Electrophysiological Method for Examining the Effects of Potential Therapeutic Agents on Memory Function,” 444 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 494-495, 1985