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Cranbury, New Jersey

Bridgewater, New Jersey

Legal consultant to Ingredion, providing IP advice and services for Ingredion's R&D group. Services include product clearance opinions, patent drafting and prosecution, and client counseling for various food business segments.

Woodland Park, New Jersey

• Managed all intellectual property matters for number one mining chemicals and number three composite materials companies. Lead a staff of six including three Patent Attorneys, Patent Office Manager and two Patent.
• Successfully established and implemented global patent strategy to address competitive threat, positioning business to recover lost sales of $6.8 million annually. Directed Australian outside patent attorneys regarding.
• Directed patent group in 2014 to obtain most first-filing priority patent applications for the company since prior to 2000 (140% increase) while reducing time to filing.
• Performed analysis of past IP procedures and created and implemented processes that resulted in a turn-around of the business’s IP practices.
• Lead the IP integration of Industrial Materials business and participated in the divesture of the coatings business.
• Established and conducted annual patent portfolio reviews and quarterly patent committee meetings for all businesses.

Bridgewater, New Jersey

Legal consultant to Henkel's detergents and cosmetics business, providing IP advice and services for cases originating from Duesseldorf. Services include product clearance opinions, patent prosecution and client counseling in cosmetic and fabric and homecare consumer business segments. Also provide services for pharmaceutical equipment manufacturer.

Bridgewater, New Jersey

• Global manager of all intellectual property matters for the Specialty Polymer Group division, which included the Personal Care business for cosmetics, Alco Chemical for detergents, and Elotex AG for powdered polymeric.
• Managed dozens of European Opposition proceedings concerning cosmetic, detergent, food and consumer goods patents.
• Successfully defended opposition of patents protecting products valued at over $50 million.
• Reduced the department time in half for filing prosecution matters by establishing efficiencies within the Patent Department, including online electronic filing.
• Participated in the development and implementation of web-based departmental agreement database that resulted in a 50% reduction of attorney time, while providing faster turn-around and accessibility to electronic.

Washington, D.C.

Assisted Novak and Druce partners in managing associate attorneys, staff and paralegals. Assigned and reviewed associate attorneys’ prosecution work, prepared patent infringement and patentability opinions, and provided IP litigation support. Advised clients on intellectual asset management of corporate intellectual property for medical devices, mechanical.

San Antonio, Texas

Maintained the patent portfolio of one of the firm’s major chemical clients. Provided office management support in addition to leading and developing a group of associate attorneys and paralegals. Advised clients on licenses and other agreements, assisting in due diligence evaluations, preparation and prosecution of patent applications, and IP litigation.

Provided counsel and assistance over full range of intellectual property law matters including IP support for business divestitures, drafting and negotiating agreements, preparing and globally prosecuting patent applications. Assigned lead global patent responsibility for one of Zeneca’s core formulation chemistry technologies involving delivery systems..

San Antonio, Texas

Specialized in all areas of U.S. patent and trademark prosecution; client counseling; preparation of patentability, patent infringement litigation, infringement, validity and nutraceutical validity opinions. Maintained firm’s prosecution docket and conducted all legal research and prepared drafts of all motion briefs, including infringement analysis briefs.

J.D./M.B.A., Law, Business

B.S., Chemical Engineering