BOSTON & NEW YORK, Jan. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wolf Greenfield is happy to announce the promotion of 1 legal professional to the place of shareholder and 6 attorneys to the place of counsel, efficient January 1, 2023. The agency’s latest shareholder is Gregory S. Nieberg. The agency’s latest counsel are Jason W. Balich, Thomas S. Chlebeck, Stuart V.C. Duncan Smith, Laura Rogers, Chelsea E. Witte-Garcia, PhD, and Adam S. Zeiger, PhD. Their authorized and technical know-how covers a spread of follow and expertise areas, together with biotechnology, chemical and supplies applied sciences, electrical and pc applied sciences, patent, litigation, and post-grant proceedings.
“It’s a distinct pleasure to announce the promotions of those seven attorneys who’re robust stewards for our agency,” stated Ed Gates, Wolf Greenfield’s President and Managing Accomplice. “Every brings to our shoppers a deep understanding of authorized, technical, and enterprise intricacies.”
SHAREHOLDER:
Greg Nieberg focuses totally on inter partes assessment (IPR) and patent reexaminations earlier than the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Enchantment Board (PTAB). Greg additionally represents shoppers in any respect phases of patent litigations, and is skilled in dealing with issues on the Federal district courts (together with the District of Delaware and Jap District of Texas), the Worldwide Commerce Fee (ITC), and arbitrations earlier than the Worldwide Chamber of Commerce (ICC). As well as, he maintains a sturdy professional bono follow. He’s ranked among the many high 3% of best-performing practitioners – out of over 5,000 attorneys – when representing petitioners in Patexia’s IPR Intelligence Report.
COUNSEL:
Jason Balich is a trial and appellate lawyer who protects his shoppers’ applied sciences and defends their freedom to make use of them. Jason can also be an engineer, an inventor, and a enterprise proprietor. He has efficiently defended a number of patent house owners—from producers to public universities—going through inter partes assessment challenges on the Patent Trial and Enchantment Board (PTAB), the place the establishment was denied. Jason often represents producers as each plaintiffs and defendants in patent, commerce secret, and industrial litigation earlier than district courts and on the Worldwide Commerce Fee (ITC). Jason authors the quarterly “Patent Replace” column in Chemical Engineering Progress, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Jason has been repeatedly named to the listing of Massachusetts Rising Stars by Tremendous Legal professionals and has been acknowledged on the Finest Legal professionals: One to Watch listing by The Finest Legal professionals in America©.
Tom Chlebeck focuses his follow on patent prosecution and shopper counseling within the areas of show expertise (e.g., OLED and LCD), energy expertise (e.g., battery management and demand response), audio expertise (e.g., encompass sound, digital and discrete), picture evaluation, synthetic intelligence (e.g., machine studying), wi-fi communication methods, distributed software program methods, and different pc, electrical, and mechanical applied sciences. Tom’s background contains working in methods and software program engineering. As well as, he was concerned in designing a satellite tv for pc that NASA finally chosen for launch.
Stuart V.C. Duncan Smith is an skilled civil litigator focusing his follow on contested issues involving mental property. He has important expertise in federal and state courts throughout the nation, the US Worldwide Commerce Fee (ITC), and the US Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO). Stuart’s expertise encompasses all phases of advanced litigation, together with growing inventive litigation methods, pursuing discovery in a cost-efficient and efficient method, difficult and defending patents in post-grant proceedings, and shepherding the instances via trial and enchantment. His litigation and post-grant expertise encompasses a wide selection of topic issues, together with antibody drug discovery, web communications, prescribed drugs, and client electronics. Stuart can also be energetic with the agency’s professional bono shoppers, he serves on the agency’s Public Companies Committee, which oversees the agency’s professional bono program, and he leads the agency’s efforts to lift funding for civil authorized help organizations.
Laura Rogers focuses her follow on US and international patent prosecution and opinion work, together with freedom-to-operate analyses in addition to due diligence, infringement, and invalidity opinions. Laura counsels shoppers of all sizes within the areas of medical units and diagnostics, immunoassays, supplies chemistry, natural chemistry, biotechnology, prescribed drugs, vaccines, formulations, polymers, filter media, power storage units and makes use of of electrochemical cells, environmental applied sciences, together with carbon emissions mitigation, oil and fuel, hemp, and different cannabinoid merchandise, fluidic units, and metallurgical compositions.
Chelsea Witte-Garcia focuses her follow on patent prosecution and counseling throughout the complete spectrum of biotechnology. Specifically, Chelsea has in depth expertise within the areas of microbiology, immunology, infectious illness therapeutics, vaccine growth, antibody applied sciences, metabolic engineering, gene enhancing, and nucleic acid sequencing applied sciences. She counsels shoppers in US and international patent prosecution, working to develop IP portfolio methods, together with competitor analyses, freedom-to-operate, IP due diligence, patentability, commerce secrets and techniques, and IP opinions. Chelsea represents shoppers from internationally, together with particular person inventors, small and early-stage biotech firms, and huge multinational pharmaceutical companies. She has a confirmed observe document of constructing shopper relationships and is ready to operate as an extension of her shoppers’ companies to align their IP methods with their enterprise objectives. Chelsea is known as to the listing of Massachusetts Rising Stars by Tremendous Legal professionals.
Adam Zeiger focuses his follow on US and worldwide patent prosecution in areas associated to chemistry and supplies science. He counsels shoppers of all sizes pertaining to applied sciences similar to medical units, novel polymers, filtration, and sensing diagnostics and detection. Adam has in depth expertise in managing prosecution and opinion work, together with freedom-to-operate analyses, due diligence, panorama research, and agreements. He works notably carefully with start-ups and tutorial establishments, however his expertise extends to multinational firms as properly. Adam accomplished his doctoral analysis at MIT, receiving his doctorate diploma in Supplies Science and Engineering within the Program for Polymer Science and Expertise.
About Wolf Greenfield
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. is among the many 10 largest regulation corporations within the nation devoted solely to mental property regulation. With over 150 authorized professionals primarily based in Boston and New York, the agency’s attorneys are on the forefront of their fields and help massive, international companies, mid-size firms, progressive start-ups and rising enterprises, famend universities and analysis establishments, and Nobel Prize winners with a full vary of mental property portfolio administration together with patent prosecution and litigation; post-grant proceedings, together with IPRs; opinions and strategic counseling; licensing; mental property audits and due diligence; trademark and copyright prosecution and litigation; and different points associated to the commercialization of mental property. For almost a century, Wolf Greenfield has helped shoppers shield their most dear mental property and continues to symbolize innovators within the fields of biotechnology, chemical and supplies applied sciences, prescribed drugs, clear expertise, electrical and pc applied sciences, mechanical applied sciences, medical units, and client merchandise. For extra details about Wolf Greenfield, please go to wolfgreenfield.com.
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