Atabak Royaee, Ph.D.* is a patent agent and scientific advisor in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Boston office. He focuses his practice on prosecution of biomedical patent applications. Atabak also assists in performing patentability, freedom-to-operate and due-diligence searches in the biotechnology field.
Prior to joining the Firm, Atabak was a technology specialist at an intellectual property law firm in Boston. From 2003-2005, Atabak was a postdoctoral fellow for Harvard University School of Public Health, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where he investigated host susceptibility to intracellular bacterial pathogens and assessed differential gene expression of host immune cells in response to bacterial infections. Prior to his work at Harvard, he was a postdoctoral fellow for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, where he conducted research on viral and parasitic infections in porcine and examined the efficacy of vaccines in farm animals. Additionally, Atabak has more than two years of experience conducting patent searching at another intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C.
Atabak received both his B.S. in chemistry and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. His thesis research was focused on the analysis of gene expression alterations of human lymphoid cells in response to cholera toxin. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University, he conducted research in the field of theoretical physical chemistry.
He is a member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). Atabak is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Representative Publications
Atabak has authored numerous articles including: “Road from the U.S. Patent Office to Japan,” Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology 2006; “Porcine differential gene expression in response to salmolella enterica serovars Choleraesuis and Typhimurium,” Molecular Immunology, 2007; “Cholera toxin induced gene expression alterations,” Molecular Immunology, 2006; “Cholera toxin induced novel genes in human lymphocytes and monocytes,” Molecular Immunology, 2006; “Induction of immunomodulator transcriptional responses by cholera toxin,” Molecular Immunology, 2006; “Cholera toxin induced gene expression alterations,” Molecular Immunology, 2006; Coauthor, “Transcriptional response signature of human lymphoid cells to staphylococcal enterotoxin B,” Genes Immunology, 2005; “Deciphering the involvement of innate immune factors in the development of the host response to PRRSV vaccination,” Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2004; “Identification of key immune mediators regulating T helper 1 responses in swine,” Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2004; and “Electronic Structure of Polyfluoranthene Ladder Polymers,” Macromolecules, 1996.
*=Non-lawyer professional
Education
- Georgetown University, Ph.D., 2002
- Georgetown University, B.S., 1995
Languages Spoken
- English
- Farsi
