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BS,MS,PhD,JD from Wales, Central Lancashire, Glasgow, De Paul Universities respectively, Over 25+ years of expertise, 6 years as law clerk, 1.6 years as patent attorney at Litman Patent Law, Presently at Wood & Eisenberg PLLC since Jan'04.
Business, Copyrights, Databases, Design, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Law, Leadership, Litigation, Management, Negotiation, Patents, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Trademarks, Windows, Windows applications
Next step:
Seeking position on Board of Directors to provide expertise on acquiring patent rights in the United States of America where I am a registered patent lawyer/attorney.
Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding hot stories, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup, Trading services
Tags:
dual usa/eu/uk citizen, inventor, ip specialist, lawyer-scientist, patent drafter/filer, patent prosecution, turning ideas into patent applications
Schools:
DePaul University, University of Bath, University of Central Lancashire, University of Glasgow, University of Wales
FULL BIO
Citizen of both Great Britian (UK/GB) and the United States of America (USA), Christopher (Chris) has a BSc with honors in Microbiology (with Chemistry and Biochemistry) from the University of Wales, a M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Central Lancashire, a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow, and a J.D. from the DePaul Law School. Before joining Wood & Eisenberg, Chris worked as an Attorney and Technical Assistant for several law firms.
Chris has prepared or prosecuted over 100 patent applications in a variety of technical areas, including pharmaceutical, immunology, industrial, tissue culture, surgical devices, microbiological, downstream processing, chemical, biochemical, bioinformatics, agro biotechnology, telecommunications, wireless communication protocols, software and mechanical.
Chris is an expert in handling DNA and amino acid sequences. Chris has worked on patent projects for several Fortune 100 Companies including: ADM, Abbott, MERCK; and not-for-profit organizations including Scripps Clinic while working for top rated law firms.
Chris is admitted to the Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and Phi Delta Phi, and is a recipient of the CALI Award for Legal Drafting.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Wood & Eisenberg, PLLC
Position:
Patents Preparator
Time period:
January 2004 - Present
Description:
Preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent applications in the biotechnology, chemical and mechanical arts. Render opinions concerning the infringement/ non- infringement of patents, the validity/invalidity of patents, and the design of products and processes to avoid potential infringement assertions.
Employer:
Litman Patent Law, VA
Position:
patent attorney
Time period:
July 2002 - December 2003
Description:
Writing 4 to 5 patent applications per month in the chemical, drug compositions, biotech, and software fields; in addition: performing FDA clearance searches (re: generic manufacture of patent expired drugs) using the USPTO “East” patent search engine.
Employer:
Wood, Phillips, Clark, Katz, and Mortimer, IL
Position:
Patent prosecution law clerk
Time period:
January 2001 - May 2002
Description:
Inter alia: wrote and prosecuted (under supervision) numerous software patent applications in signal/data processing, and in the biotech/chemical arts including polymer formulations, biopolymers, novel molecules and industrial chemical compositions (mostly while attending
law school).
Employer:
Olson and Hierl, IL
Position:
Patent prosecution law clerk
Time period:
October 2000 - January 2001
Description:
Worked on various biotech and chemical projects including claim drafting, responding to Office Actions and conducting interviews with Patent Examiners (under supervision) on behalf of Scripps Clinic. Wood Phillips enticed me back and I left Olson and Hierl in Jan ’01 to return to Wood Phillips where I stayed until May ‘02.
Employer:
Wood, Phillips, Clark, Katz, and Mortimer, IL
Position:
Patent prosecution law clerk
Time period:
July 1999 - October 2000
Description:
Inter alia: wrote and prosecuted (under supervision) numerous software patent applications in signal/data processing, and in the biotech/chemical arts including polymer formulations, biopolymers, novel molecules and industrial chemical compositions (mostly while attending
law school).
Employer:
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, IL
Position:
Prosecution law clerk
Time period:
July 1998 - July 1999
Description:
Wrote several high and low tech patent applications including mechanical patent applications, novel polymer formulations; biotechnology, consumer goods, and biopolymer materials (while attending law school).
Employer:
Laff, Whitesel & Saret, now Michael Best, IL
Position:
Law clerk
Time period:
August 1996 - July 1998
Description:
Ran discovery on a complex biotech case, and penned from scratch three patent applications for ADM one of which was filed in over 30 countries. Other responsibilities: dealing with Expert Witnesses, briefing attorneys ahead of depositions of chemical R&D personnel.
Employer:
Bath University, Bath, England
Position:
Post Doctoral Research Officer
Time period:
April 1995 - August 1996
Employer:
Glasgow University, Scotland.
Position:
Teaching Assistant
Time period:
January 1992 - December 1994
Description:
Undergrad chemistry labs, marked lab write-ups, taught the Cambridge Small Molecule Database and FORTRAN.
Employer:
Merret’s bakery, Wales.
Position:
Data entry clerk , shift worker
Time period:
January 1991 - December 1992
Employer:
CTF Training Ltd., Bute Street, Bute Town, Cardiff, UK.
Position:
Information Technology Tutor
Time period:
January 1990 - December 1990
Employer:
Unknown
Position:
Freelance
Time period:
January 1982 - December 1990
Description:
Water Treatment Chemist/Microbiologist, Private Tutor, and Manufacturer’s Agent.
Molecular Modelling Of The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Transmembrane Region In The Open State; Protein Engineering, 1997, Vol.10, No.5, pp.511-517.
Patents:
US Patent Publication Number 20060237531 - drafted and filed by Dr. Christopher Wood of Wood & Eisenberg, which issued as US Patent Number 7,503,489 (Method and system for monitoring electronic purchases and cash-withdrawals); co-inventor (patent assigned to an Arlington company in which I have no ownership rights)
INFORMATION
Awards:
CALI award for Legal Drafting; Phi Delta Phi membership (offered membership in response to getting on the Dean's List at the end of my first semester at law school (JMLS), I transferred from JMLS to DePaul Law School and graduated in 2001 with a JD, and passed the Illinois Bar in 2002, and sat the Patent Bar in late 2002, and became a registered patent agent (01/28/2003) and patent attorney (02/28/2003), but I have worked in the intellectual property and patent field since August 1996.
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