Alexander prosecutes patent applications in various fields, including medical devices, biotechnology, diagnostics, image processing applications, computer systems and software, and mechanical devices. His patent experience spans every stage of a product’s life cycle, including post-grant proceedings, and patent portfolio strategies and development. Alexander performs patentability, validity, and freedom-to-operate assessments, provides pre-litigation assessment sand opinions regarding patentability, and conducts IP due diligence for strategic business transactions.

While earning his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Alexander’s thesis work included building and running computational models of blood flow in arteries, based on ultrasound input data. After completing his doctorate, Alexander was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Langer Lab) and later at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His postdoctoral work included generating bone-cartilage constructs from silk scaffolds and human bone marrow stromal cells, as well as studying cell-biomaterial interactions using alginate hydrogels.

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• Represented a US medical device company in patent procurement matters in the field of critical care*
• Participated in multi-year patent litigation and inter partes review proceedings before the US Patent Office on behalf of a US diagnostic company*
• Represented a multi-national energy company in a range of patent procurement and portfolio development matters*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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