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Laura Collins is a patent agent in the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group and a member of the firm's Patent Counseling and Prosecution practice. She joined the firm in 2008 and is resident in the San Diego office.
With more than eight years of intellectual property law experience, Dr. Collins provides scientific and technical knowledge supporting intellectual property litigation and patent prosecution. She has also contributed to due diligence analyses, inventorship investigations, and analysis of patent non-infringement and invalidity issues.
Dr. Collins has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the areas of chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical technologies. She has conducted over 75 patent landscape analyses for new and generic pharmaceutical products. In litigation matters, Dr. Collins has worked with expert witnesses to write expert reports and prepare for depositions; she has also done claim construction analysis for Markman Hearings. She has contributed to patent and trade secret litigation matters in technologies including antibody therapeutics, genetic probes, liquid silicon inks, and diagnostic assays. She also has contributed to intellectual property counseling and patent infringement litigation involving generic drugs under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Dr. Collins earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral research examined the electronic structure of transition metal clusters using electronic and vibrational spectroscopies. Dr. Collins received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with Honors and History from Bryn Mawr College, where she investigated the redox chemistry of molybdopterin complexes and where she was awarded a General Electric Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Dr. Collins is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association.
Education- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD Chemistry , 1999 - Bryn Mawr College
AB Chemistry & History, 1993, With honors
Admissions
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Memberships
- American Chemical Society
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