Joshua P. Reddington*

Overview

Joshua Reddington focuses his practice on patent matters, including litigation and prosecution in the life sciences space, helping inventors and companies protect innovations arising from biomedical research.

He joins the firm following a career in various facets of the intellectual property world that gives him a well-rounded perspective on how a matter looks from every seat at the table. Joshua's route into patent law began in biomedical engineering, which he studied through both his undergraduate and master's degrees at The Ohio State University. While completing his master's, he interned with Ohio State's Technology Commercialization Office, where he evaluated university researchers' inventions for patent protection and commercial potential. This work introduced Joshua to the experience of advocating directly on behalf of inventors. That role led him to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he spent nearly two years as a Utility Patent Examiner, reviewing applications, conducting prior art searches, and writing office actions from inside the system that issues patents.

The examiner position sharpened his substantive knowledge of patent prosecution, but Joshua found himself drawn back toward direct client contact and team-based work, which led him to pursue his J.D. at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. While in law school, he continued to build his technical and legal experience, negotiating material license agreements at the American Type Culture Collection as a Senior Licensing Associate, and later as a Patent Law Clerk at FIG. 1, drafting applications and claim amendments in bioinformatics, microbiology, and cancer biology. He also served as a Summer Associate at a major international law firm and as a Student Attorney in Franklin Pierce's IP and Transaction Clinic, prosecuting trademark applications for clients.

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