Graham Alig Email and Phone Number

Meet with Clients to discuss potential patent applications; offer strategies for protecting their patentable invention. Draft US and PCT patent applications. Prosecute US patent applications. Provide instructions to foreign agents to advance prosecution of foreign patent applications. Help assignees monetizing patents. Write utility, design and plant patents. Provide patentability opinions and file patent applications for pro bono Clients. Provide overflow support and patent law expertise for local law firms.

Market firm and develop new Clients. Prosecute US and foreign patent applications, including post-allowance actions, reissue and reexams. Co-authoring of non-infringement and freedom to operate opinions. Assist on trademark matters. Assist in patent litigations. Research case law and apply research to patent prosecution, opinions and litigations. Set-up electronic invoices. Collaborated in setting up new practice.

Co-authored non-infringement, freedom to operate opinions and patentability opinions. Managed docket of US and foreign patent applications for Clients including at least two Fortune 500 companies. Prosecution of US and foreign patent applications. Researched case law and applied research to patent prosecution and opinions. Managed paralegal’s work, reviewed work product and reported to partner. Marketed practice and developed two new clients. Wrote and conducted CLE program presented at Clients’ office.

Graham C. Alig focuses his practice on patent prosecution for clients in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, biochemical, molecular biology, and chemical industries.Graham has over a decade of experience as a patent agent including positions at the firms of Pennie & Edmonds and Duane Morris, as well as with the Intellectual Property department of DuPont.Prior to practicing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Graham was employed as a researcher in a start-up drug development company where he developed and oversaw the validation of in vivo bioeffectiveness of potential drug leads. Graham also investigated animal vaccines at the research laboratories of the Louisiana State University Veterinary School.At Dartmouth Medical School, Graham completed two years of study in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Ph.D. program, investigating the role of transforming growth factor-beta in human breast cancer. He has a B.S., Biology, from Coastal Carolina University. Graham is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

Prosecuted US, PCT and foreign patent applications. Determined the intellectual property needs of Clients. Met with Clients to discuss patent portfolios, provided strategy on the best course of action to satisfy intellectual property goals. Diligently followed agreed upon plan and reported status to Client on a regular basis. Wrote patentability opinions, and assisted in writing freedom to operate, patent infringement and patent enforceability opinions. Searched, reviewed and analyzed intellectual property case law. Managed Clients’ docket of cases: completing and assigning projects as needed. Assigned and oversaw work performed by paralegals. Entered data for partners into Foundation IP docketing system. Alerted partners of upcoming due dates.

Timely completed intellectual property project specified in the terms of sale of National Starch LLC. Filed documents establishing correct ownership of patents and applications as stipulated in sales agreement. Additionally, prosecuted patent applications. Also, helped organize health and fitness event for National Starch and two other companies sharing the business campus.

Drafted patent applications and claims from de novo. Communicated status of patent portfolios to Clients. Prosecuted US, PCT and foreign patent applications. Determined the intellectual property needs of new and existing Clients. Met with Clients to discuss patent portfolios, provided strategy on the best course of action to satisfy intellectual property needs; executed agreed plan of action on behalf of clients. Wrote patentability opinions, and assisted in writing freedom to operate, patent infringement and patent enforceability opinions. Searched, reviewed and analyzed patent case law. Managed Clients’ docket of cases: completing and assigning projects as needed. Assigned and oversaw work performed by paralegals. Filed replies and applications online for a number of partners. Assisted attorneys in due diligence matters. Received recognition for Pro Bono work in both 2008 and 2009.

Drafted applications from de novo while consulting closely with inventors and patent liaisons. Wrote opinions on patentability and freedom to operate for business units’ current and past projects. Met with business unit leaders and engineers to discuss project strategy as it concerns intellectual property. Prosecuted pending US and foreign patent applications. Received performance award for coordination of legal group’s patent filing strategy in February 2006.

Wrote patent applications from de novo. Wrote amendments in response to USPTO office actions. Drafted claims. Attended to filing patent applications. Managed prosecution docket from filing to issuance. Assisted in filing copyright applications. Assisted attorneys in due diligence matters. Made annuity payments on behalf of Clients.

Wrote substantive replies to pending office actions. Created sequence listings for patent applications and accompanying documents including amendments to Specification, transmittal and verified statement. Assisted attorneys in technical matters of biotechnology, pharmacology and medicine in both patent prosecution and patent litigation. Created electronic system for efficient re-filing of information disclosure statements. Researched and obtained patent and non-patent literature. Analyzed nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. Researched prior art and case law. Taught new hires skills such as creating information disclosure statements, indexing file histories and the preparation of Sequence Listing. Managed and filed deposit of biological material. Procured and documented samples of Clients’ and competitors’ products for opinions and litigations.

Wrote substantive replies to pending office actions. Created sequence listings for patent applications and accompanying documents including amendments to Specification, transmittal and verified statement. Assisted attorneys in technical matters of biotechnology, pharmacology and medicine in both patent prosecution and patent litigation. Created electronic system for efficient re-filing of information disclosure statements. Researched and obtained patent and non-patent literature. Analyzed nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. Researched prior art and case law. Taught new hires skills such as creating information disclosure statements, indexing file histories and the preparation of Sequence Listing. Managed and filed deposit of biological material. Procured and documented samples of Clients’ and competitors’ products for opinions and litigations. Received award for completing the most billed hours among non-attorneys in 2003.

Prepared patent application transmittal documents. Created indexed patent file histories. Compiled Information Disclosure Statements, including accompanying transmittal and binder of documents. Researched prior art using search engines such as Dialog®, BLAST, and STN® (D-gene, CA-plus, Registry, etc.). Researched and obtained patent and non-patent literature. Created status reports for Clients. Procured and documented samples of Clients’ and competitors’ products for opinions and litigations. Frequently, personally ensured that patent applications received proof of filing, particularly after the close of regular business hours.

Managed tissue culture lab. Developed the tissue culture department from a part-time, single person operation of only academic interest to a bona fide department with four full-time staff members conducting experiments of critical importance to DGI’s drug lead discovery program. Analyzed and reported lab findings to CEO in group meetings.

Supervised senior professor’s laboratory. Conducted routine laboratory work, managed a team of up to four researchers, assisted in writing grant proposals and manuscripts. Analyzed and reported lab findings to Department Chair. Wrote manuscripts and grant proposals. Presented research group’s discoveries at technical conferences.