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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.

+1 202 728 7074
cholly@cooley.com

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 secures key patent on agricultural disease-fighting bacterium for Montana State University's College of Agriculture 

  • Cooley builds foundational patent portfolio for BioConsortia, innovator of microbial solutions for crop improvement 

  • Cooley advises Pivot Bio on $70M Series B Round 

  • Cooley works closely with Provivi - an emerging agricultural company - to revolutionize pest control 

  • Cooley works hand in hand with HM.CLAUSE to establish and maintain an IP portfolio that protects the company's market leading vegetable seeds 

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Practices & Industries
Passions

    Scuba diving, anything involving salt water

    Collecting old jazz vinyl LPs

    Homebrewing beer

     

Education

  • University of Mississippi School of Law
    JD, magna cum laude , 2011

  • Mississippi State University
    PhD, Biological Sciences
    2008

  • Millsaps College
    BS, Biology
    2004

Admissions & Credentials

District of Columbia

Mississippi

Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)

Tennessee

Media & Insight
Memberships

  • American Intellectual Property Law Association

  • American Seed Trade Association

  • Patent & Trademark Office Society

  • Weed Science Society of America

  • Seed Innovation and Protection Alliance

Contact

+1 202 728 7074 office
cholly@cooley.com

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004-2400

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