JD, Washington College of Law, American University, 2003
MS, Biotechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
BS, Biology, George Washington University, 1996                                                                                                                                           

• District of Columbia Bar
• US Patent and Trademark Attorney
• Virginia State Bar

General experience

• Assisted small and large clients, domestic and foreign, in patenting, protecting and commercializing inventions in the areas of petrochemicals, metals and fertilizers, chemical and biotechnology products, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, coatings, mechanical devices and business methods, in both domestic and foreign venues.
• Managed  patent  portfolios,  supervised  and  delegated  work  between  team  of  attorneys  and  support  staff.
• Prosecuted patent applications, prepared opinions, and assisted with litigation and transactional matters.

Portfolio management

• Directly managed several client portfolios ranging in the thousands of active cases
• Communicated with and counselled clients regarding worldwide portfolio management and strategic development
• Conducted regularly scheduled discussions with in-house general counsel, management, and scientists to render decisions  on patent prosecution strategies and prepared yearly budget estimates;
• coordinated and directed prosecution, communication and work assignments between client and a legal team of partners, associates, legal assistants and paralegals.

Patent prosecution

• Fully drafted and prosecuted over thousands of patent applications world-wide
• Extensive experience with US and PCT filing and practice
• Well experienced with Australia, Canada, China, Europe, GCC, Japan, Mexico, Middle East, New Zealand, Saudi, Singapore and South Africa patent practice, and familiar with other jurisdictions.

Litigation work, due diligence, opinion and transactional

• For a number of clients, and coordinated a team of attorneys focusing on local content deals in Saudi Arabia.  The team assisted companies with drafting, reviewing and negotiating shareholder, share sale, financial (including conventional and Islamic, and SIDF), commercial, marketing, supply/feedstock, off-take, technology licensing, real estate, front-end engineering (FEED/FEL), and construction (including build-only, D&B and EPC arrangements) agreements; conducting technical and commercial legal and IP due diligence, advised company; advising on a variety of matters, including project structuring, construction and operational strategy, corporate structuring,  joint venture set up, technology, financing (e.g., SIDF funding), licensing requirements (e.g., MISA), exit strategy (IPO, selling shares, call/put-option), etc.
• Prepared, drafted, reviewed and negotiated non-disclosure agreements, collaboration/joint development agreements, technical service agreements, license agreements and other technology agreements.
• Conducted due diligence and opinion work by reviewing claims of patents, published patent applications, and file histories, and provided opinions, preliminary analysis memoranda, and preliminary oral presentations for  validity, infringement, freedom-to-operate, and patentability.
• Assisted the patent litigation matters, including performing legal and technical research, conducting prior art searches, reviewing file histories and developing litigation theories.
• Assisted small and large clients, domestic and foreign, in patenting, protecting and commercializing inventions in the areas of petrochemicals, metals and fertilizers, chemical and biotechnology products, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, coatings, mechanical devices and business methods, in both domestic and foreign venues.

• Member, Research & Innovation (R&I) Committee, Gulf Petrochemical and Chemical Association (GPCA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Legal liaison and member of Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment (ACME) Committee, American Chamber of Commerce, Saudi Arabia (AmChamKSA)
• Speaker, Presenter and Organizer for IP and the Middle East topics, mainly in conjunction with the US State Department and the Commercial Law Development Program, US Department of Commerce.