Judy Mohr, PhD, helps companies maximize product protection and intellectual property (IP) value by focusing on the business goals of the company and designing a patent portfolio to meet those objectives. Her practice encompasses US and non-US patent procurement, post-grant proceedings (including reexamination and inter partes review), IP due diligence on the investor side and the company side, negotiation of agreements, and development of IP strategies. She assists companies in the pharmaceutical, medical diagnostics, medical device, and gas and liquid separations industries.
Drawing on her education in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering, and her decade of industrial experience as an engineer in the polymer and pharmaceutical formulation fields, Judy provides a unique technical background that allows her to quickly assess patent portfolios and provide strategic advice. This is a key advantage in the implementation of patent strategies for pharmaceutical companies, as she is able to understand and communicate the technology to the patent examiners. Judy has worked with companies to develop patent portfolios in the pharmaceutical, drug delivery, diagnostics and water clean-up fields.
Judy has experience counseling emerging and mature life science companies in a broad range of matters, including patentability assessments, freedom to operate analyses, infringement/non-infringement evaluations, and IP due diligence in licensing transactions, financings, mergers and acquisitions. Judy frequently advises her pharmaceutical clients on topics related to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Orange Book listings and the Hatch-Waxman Act. She also works with the IP litigators and assists clients in patent litigation matters.
Judy earned her doctoral degree in chemical engineering, with a focus in polymer properties and small molecule transport through polymer films, and her bachelor’s degree in biology.
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