Brenda Hefti Email & Phone Number

Alameda, California, Us

Support the Discovery, Development, CMC and Commercial teams with efficient, collaborative legal processes to support research-stage, clinical-stage, and commercial therapeutic products. My team drafts, reviews, revises, and negotiates clinical trial agreements (US and international), license agreements, vendor agreements, MSAs, consulting agreements, materials transfer agreements, research agreements, product supply and manufacturing agreements, and advisory board agreements; legal support on clinical trial-related documents such as informed consent forms, general legal correspondence, and privacy documents. Manage patent attorneys who work with internal scientific teams and outside counsel in US and international patent prosecution, coordinate trademark and copyright activities for commercial organization, manage patent litigation (including two Hatch-Waxman litigations) and opposition proceedings, and develop global patent strategy for the company.

San Francisco, California, Us

Negotiate clinical trial agreements, sponsored research agreements, collaborations, and materials transfers with industry and non-profit partners. Evaluate invention disclosures, conduct patentability and freedom to operate analyses, negotiate licenses for university-owned patents and technologies.

Draft, review and negotiate NDAs, service contracts, consulting agreements, employment agreements, and other contracts on behalf of small biotech and private clients

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Provided counsel to public and private medical device, biotechnology, and high technology companies on general corporate activities, supervise and review preparation of securities filings with both state and federal authorities, drafted and negotiated financing documents, including term sheets, equity financing documents, debt financing documents, consents, certificates, consulting and employment agreements, researched and drafted memos relating to securities laws, coordinated corporate, licensing and patent due diligence, negotiated intellectual property and sponsored research agreements ancillary to financings

Assisted with corporate, securities, tax, transactional and patent projects

Boston, Ma, Us

Drafted licensing documents, including material transfer agreements, nondisclosure agreements, non-exclusive licenses, and exclusive licenses for corporate and university clients, reviewed license agreements and SEC filings; researched chains of title; drafted memos related to post-dissolution distribution of assets, CAPRA, FOIA, and government indemnification of private parties, prepared office action responses; drafted patent applications and claim sets, researched freedom to operate; prepared patent portfolio reviews; participated in client calls

Bethesda, Md, Us

Negotiated and executed intellectual property licenses , worked with industry and university partners to consolidate and license joint patent rights, drafted 2-6 memos per month recommending patent filing strategies based on legal and commercial status of NIH-owned patent applications and inventions, and managed prosecution of over 600 U.S. and international patents and patent applications, including conferring with patent attorneys, reviewing office actions, and establishing filing strategies

J.D.

Phd, Neuroscience

Ba, English, Molecular Biology