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Mary Boyle, Ph.D.

Mary Boyle, Ph.D.

Partner

Silicon Valley
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Mary Boyle, Ph.D. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Silicon Valley office.  Her practice focuses in the areas of intellectual property litigation in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.  She has broad experience in litigating commercial disputes and providing advice to investment banks and companies in the biopharmaceutical and high-technology segments. 

While in law school, Mary served as managing editor for The George Washington Law Review.  Additionally, she served as an extern to the Honorable Henry H. Kennedy of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia.  After graduation she completed a judicial clerkship for the Honorable Inez Smith Reid of the D.C. Court of Appeals.

Prior to law school, Mary held faculty positions in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Iowa.  She was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Department of Pharmacology at Yale University.  Her research focused on the cellular and molecular control of electrical excitability in nerve and muscle cells.  Mary earned a Ph.D. in Physiology from Yale University and an A.B. in Biology magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Mary has co-authored several articles including:  “The Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege and Use of Non-Liability Opinions After In re Seagate” for the Sedona Conference in 2007, "The 'Elevated Evidentiary Burden' to Provide Inequitable Conduct" for the Sedona Conference in 2008 and "Written Description and Enablement:  The Pas de Deux Continues Practicing Law Institute" in September 2009.

Mary is admitted to practice in California, New York and the District of Columbia, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and in numerous federal district courts.

 

Education

  • George Washington University Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2000
  • Yale University, Ph.D., Physiology, 1983
  • Barnard College, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1976

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