Biology Ph.D. in law school with USPTO experience

Xin Taylor

***** *** **** *****, *****, MD *****

240-***-****(cell), 240-***-**** (home)

abqwx2@r.postjobfree.com

ADMISSIONS

Pending registration before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

(Exam passed on March 5, 2013)

EDUCATION

The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, D.C.

J.D. Candidate, May 2013

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Postdoctoral Fellow, September 1999 to May 2002

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Shanghai, China

Ph.D. in Cell Biology, July 1999

East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

M.S. in Biochemistry, July 1996

B.S. in Biology, July 1991

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Office of Patent Legal Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA

Legal Extern/Student Trainee, June 2012 to Present

• Use Patent Examiner’s Tool Kit to conduct searches and draft Office actions

• Assist in evaluating applications for patent term extension under 35 U.S.C. §156

• Draft Office decisions on petitions in reexamination proceedings

• Review patent applications and prosecutions under the Special Application Warning System

• Research and explain U.S. patent law, the Office policies and procedures in response to phone

inquiries from the public

• Write legal memoranda on topics relating to the America Invents Act

Office of Chief Counsel, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,

U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.

Legal Extern/Student Volunteer, January 2012 to present

• Conduct legal research and prepare memoranda on various topics

• Assist in preparing enforcement orders in adjudication proceedings

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Research Biologist (Contracted by Kelly Services), December 2009 to December 2011

• Provided technical support to intramural scientists, explored new techniques in

reprogramming, genetic manipulations and characterization of animal and human embryonic

stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells

CVPath Institute, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD

Molecular Biologist/Lab Supervisor, May 2007 to December 2009

• Prepared standard operating procedures of laboratory activities, drafted project proposals for

funding ranged from $50,000 to over a million dollars from varied sources, and generated the

final research reports; trained and supervised junior employees

Provided consultative and research services on molecular and pharmacogenomics matters for

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preclinical projects involving drug-eluting stents and other interventional cardiovascular

biomedical devices

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Research Fellow, May 2002 to May 2007

(Received NIH Fellow Award for Research Excellence 2006)

• Explored molecular mechanisms of directional cell movement by utilizing time-lapse

multichannel microscopy techniques and imaging software for image processing and analysis

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

FAES Graduate School at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Guest Lecturer, 2008 Fall and 2009 Spring (Biochemistry 300)

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Mandarin Chinese (Fluent)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (credited as Xin Xu)

1. Coauthor (2011) Connexin43 modulates cell polarity and directional cell migration by regulating

microtubule dynamics. PLoS One. 6(10): e26379. Epub Oct 14.

2. Coauthor (2009) Differential healing after Sirolimus, Paclitaxel, and bare metal stent placement in

combination with peroxisome proliferator-activator receptor agonists. Circulation Research 105:

1003-1012

3. Coauthor (2008) Endothelial cell recovery between comparator polymer-based drug-eluting stents.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 52(5): 333-342

4. Coauthor (2007) Comments on Obata J et al. “Sirolimus-Eluting stent implantation aggravates

endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in the infarct-related coronary artery in patients with acute

myocardial infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 51(11): 1124-1125

5. Xu, X. et al. (2006) Connexin43 regulates focal contacts and the actin cytoskeleton in migratory

cardiac neural crest cells. Development 133(18): 3629-3639

6. Coauthor. (2005) Connexin43 associated with an N-cadherin-containing multiprotein complex is

required for gap junction formation in NIH3T3 cells. Journal of Biological chemistry 80(20): 19925-

19936

7. Coauthor. (2004) Connexins and cell signaling in development and disease. Annual Review of Cell

and Developmental Biology 20(8): 11-38

8. Xu, X. et al. (2001) Modulation of mouse neural crest cell motility by N-cadherin and connexin 43

gap junctions. Journal of Cell Biology 154(1): 217-230

9. Xu, X. et al. (2001) Effect of Kinase-negative EGFR gene on differentiation of embryonic germ cell

line EG4 cells. Chinese Science Bulletin 46(16): 1364-1366

10. Xu, X. et al. (2000) Pluripotential of primary germ cell and embryonic germ cell (Review)

Reproduction and contraception 20(5): 259-262

11. Xu, X. et al. (1999) Establishment and differentiation of murine EG cell lines derived from

primordial germ cells. Acta Biologiae Experimentalis Sinica 32(3): 251-263

INVITED TALKS

1. American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 10-14, 2005.

Title: Connexin43 modulates focal contacts and the actin cytoskeleton in migrating cardiac neural

crest cells.

2. Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. May 16-19, 2002.

Title: Connexin43 modulation of integrin signaling plays an essential role in cardiac neural crest cell

migration.

3. American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 8-13, 2001.

Title: Modulation of neural crest cell motility by Cx43 involves integrin mediated signaling.

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