I enjoy working closely with cutting-edge innovators, particularly in the rapidly evolving agricultural biotech sector, to secure, protect and monetize worldwide intellectual property rights.
+1 202 842 7801 eveitenheimer@cooley.com
Dr. Erich Veitenheimer focuses on developing and implementing strategies to enable life sciences and biotech companies, universities and nonprofit research organizations to procure worldwide protection for their inventions and/or to provide them with the necessary freedom to operate. He has extensive experience in obtaining and defending patent positions by using practical, cost-effective approaches to resolving patent and trade secret disputes. He is named one of the top lawyers in the United States for life sciences and patent prosecution matters (Legal 500).
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Intellectual Property
Patent Counseling & Prosecution – Life Sciences
Patent Office Litigation
Patent Counseling & Prosecution – Agricultural Science
Life Sciences
Food & Beverage
Cleantech
Pro Bono
Plant husbandry
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Adventure travel
Georgetown University Law CenterJD, Leon Robbin Patent Award, 1998
University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhD, Genetics and Statistics1985
University of Wisconsin-MadisonMS, Genetics1982
Washington State UniversityBS, Agronomysumma cum laude, 1980
District of Columbia
Maryland
Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Best Lawyers 2020 – Cooley August 27, 2019
Protecting Plant Inventions August 13, 2019
American Horticultural Society Elects New Chair, Officers, Board Member July 29, 2019
American Bar Association
American Horticultural Society Board of Directors
American Seed Trade Association
Beautification Commission City of Alexandria Appointment
Seed Innovation and Protection Alliance
Trans Legal Services Network Advisory Council
Washington Council of Lawyers Board of Directors
Best Lawyers in America: Technology Law
The Legal 500 US: Life Sciences and Patent Prosecution
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