Chris Holly

Partner

I love practicing at the intersection of science and the law. It's where I am with my clients on a daily basis. Helping clients create value and secure innovations is central to my work.

cholly@cooley.com

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Dr. Chris Holly is a patent lawyer with experience in IP portfolio creation and counseling; early-, mid-, and late-stage fundraising diligence; targeted acquisitions; and post-grant adversarial proceedings at the USPTO. Chris counsels clients across the market spectrum, from small startup companies to billion-dollar private and publicly traded corporations.

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Experience

Cooley builds patent estate for Zymergen’s HTP genomic engineering and synthetic biology platform
Cooley advises food industry pioneer Nobell Foods on patent matters
AppHarvest Acquires Root AI
Cooley advises Provivi on $45.5M Series C-2 Round
Cooley advises Evolutionary Genomics in its partnership with Dole Food Company
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Practices & Industries

Passions

SCUBA diving and anything involving salt water

Collecting old jazz vinyl LPs

Oenophile – WSET Diploma candidate

Chris is regularly retained by clients in the agricultural sector for strategic IP advice. As one client notes, “Chris is very strategic and is always thinking of creative ways to expand our IP portfolio. He's very good at anticipating how the patent examiner will respond and thinks a few steps ahead." – Chambers USA 2021