Rothwell Figg Elects Nancy Linck to Partnership

Washington, D.C. – February 11, 2009 – Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. announced today that Dr. Nancy J. Linck has been elected to the firm’s partnership, effective immediately. Prior to joining the firm in February, 2008, Dr. Linck had served as the former Solicitor and later an Administrative Patent Judge at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), former Deputy General Counsel for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), and Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Compliance Counsel, for Guilford Pharmaceuticals.

Before becoming Solicitor at the USPTO, Nancy was a partner at Cushman, Darby & Cushman. In addition, Dr. Linck has corporate experience working both as a patent attorney for Monsanto and a chemist at Dow Chemical Company.
Other legal experience includes training as a mediator at Pepperdine University and in the Federal Circuit’s pilot mediation program, serving as a consultant and expert witness in numerous patent cases in federal courts and in the FTC, and teaching law at both the Georgetown University Law Center and George Washington University School of Law.  Presently, she is teaching a course in Pharmaceutical Patent Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Dr. Linck received her J.D. from Western New England College School of Law and her Ph.D. and M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. She also holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and will receive an M.S. in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University this May.
Her bar memberships include the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, District of Columbia, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Additionally, the firm is pleased to announce that Dr. Linck has been selected by the Nominating Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) to serve on the Section’s Council for a four-year term.  Formal election will be held at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago in August, 2009.
About Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Based in Washington, D.C., Rothwell Figg is one of the nation’s top intellectual property law firms. The firm specializes in patent litigation, prosecution counseling, licensing and transactions, trade dress, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition. In addition to its patent and trademark prosecution, licensing and intellectual property counseling practices, the firm has handled a large number of complex and high-profile patent litigations before U.S. federal district courts and courts of appeals and the U.S. International Trade Commission, interference actions before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has argued patent appeals before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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