I draft and prosecute U.S. patent applications and manage the prosecution of corresponding foreign applications. I manage in-house IP for several technologies, and am experienced in drafting applications related to fuels chemistry (including biofuels), petroleum refining, coal gasification, analytical methods (including applications involving machine learning) and environmental sustainability (including bioremediation). I also educate company inventors about relevant aspects of IP Law, assess patentability, and occasionally conduct FTO and invalidity studies. Prior to transitioning into intellectual property, I spent 15 years researching intracellular signaling pathways that control cell growth and cancer progression. I became adept in a variety of molecular biology and pharmacological techniques. I also gained several semesters of university-level teaching experience during my time at UC Santa Barbara.One of my academic publications was reviewed in the journal "Science Signaling" (link below) and describes a novel mechanism that cancer cells utilize to regulate the production of certain growth-regulating proteins during cancer progression.My outside interests are many. I'm an avid outdoorsman, football fan disc golfer and father of three. I'm also a notorious "tinkerer" in anything mechanical. I like to believe that this benefits my professional perspective.
Listed skills include Patent Drafting, Patent Prosecution, Patent Analysis, Intellectual Property, and 18 others.