Senior Patent Counsel - Prosecute patent applications, draft patent applications for Merck's Life Sciences technologies; including biofilters and bioreactors inventions.

Prosecute portfolio of more than 200 pending US patent cases for polymers, rubber coated knitted gloves, surgical gloves, condoms, semiconductors, oil refining products & processes, and carbon nanoparticles for disciplines ranging from mechanical and medical devices, materials science, industrial products and consumer goods. o Prepared more than 75 utility patent applications and more than 20 design patent applications. o Manage and update client Virtual Patent Marking webpage for Fortune 1000 client.Counsel clients during invention review processes; collaborate closely with inventors, R&D directors, and project managers to identify, analyze, and promote submissions of invention disclosures for patenting.Review prosecution work performed by junior associates.Prepare “global” patent applications for PCT and non-US national stage patent application filings.Direct foreign colleagues for successful prosecution of clients’ counterpart foreign patent applications. o (In rank order: EP, AU, CN, JP, CA).Prepare legal opinions: o Freedom-to-operate and clearance opinions to clear client products for launch into marketplace. o Validity opinions and infringement opinions. o IP due diligence opinions for mergers & acquisitions.Draft patent licenses, contracts, and non-disclosure agreements.Litigation support for US patent infringement case and foreign counterpart cases.Prepared, filed, and prosecuted more than 25 trademark applications; prepared and filed UDRP complaints.Provide counsel and patent prosecution for various medical devices companies. Provide counsel and trademark prosecution for various manufacturing and services companies.

December 2010 - present: Contract review and corporate law for a major pharmaceutical company.

March 2010 - November 2010: First and Second Level Document Review. Assisting national law firms with patent litigations as well as FTC, SEC, antitrust and bankruptcy litigations during discovery phase. Create privilege and redaction comments and logs pursuant thereto. Quality control reviews.

Document review for responsiveness pursuant to FTC subpoenas. Prepare privilege and redaction logs. Perform second level quality control review.

Prosecute patents for chemical and mechanical arts. Write provisional applications. Various IP tasks in trademarks.

Performed international searches of prior art and published literature pursuant to PCTs for an International Search Authority.

Assisted Judge Ashrafi in all aspects of civil litigation. Wrote bench memoranda and reasons for orders. Supervised work product of intern.Mediated small claims and special civil part ($15,000 jurisdictional limit) cases; 24/28 settlement rate.

Intern for the Hon. Jeffrey R. Howard, Circuit Judge for the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Summer Associate for the Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property Dept. of the University of Massachusetts.Wrote and filed provisional patent applications.Worked with professors and inventors.Wrote dozens of abstracts for inventions posted on a public online technology portal.