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Bonnie Weiss McLeod is a Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. She joined the firm in 2005 and is resident in the Washington DC office. Dr. McLeod has in-depth experience serving the life science industry in the preparation and prosecution of biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent applications, the preparation of requests for reexamination, and opinions involving noninfringement, invalidity and freedom to operate. She has managed many intellectual property due diligence analyses in collaboration with other Cooley partners in relation to public offerings, venture capital financing and life science corporate transactions. Dr. McLeod specializes in counseling clients ranging from nonprofits and small to mid-size biotech companies with regard to developing and maintaining a patent strategy that is consistent with business goals. Dr. McLeod is a former patent examiner in the biotechnology group of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Her practice focuses on the biotechnology arts, including molecular biology, cellular biology, bacterial and eukaryotic genetics, immunology and autoimmunity, recombinant antigens and vaccines, gene therapy, genetic engineering, genomics, microarray technologies, virology and RNA interference. Dr. McLeod is a graduate of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, where she graduated magna cum laude. Dr. McLeod was awarded her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Maryland College Park in 1994. Dr. McLeod also completed post-doctoral work in the study of molecular mechanisms of costimulatory signaling in T cells. Dr. McLeod is admitted to practice in Virginia, Washington, DC and before the US Patent and Trademark Office, and is a member of AIPLA and the American Bar Association. She serves on the pro bono committee for Cooley's Washington DC office and is actively involved in various pro bono matters. She is a frequent speaker at universities and local life science organizations and has spoken on topics including developing a global patent strategy, the business side of intellectual property, joint inventorship issues and developing a patent portfolio that will attract investors.
Education- The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
JD, 2001, magna cum laude - University of Maryland, College Park
PHD Molecular Biology, 1994 - University of Maryland, College Park
BS, 1988
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Virginia
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
Published Articles- "The ‘Real World' Utility of miRNA Patents: Lessons Learned from Expressed Sequence Tags," Nature America, Inc. (February 2011) (co-author)
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