Company Specialist

ELLEN LAW

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PROFILE

Patent specialist with more than a decade of experience representing client s in large-scale patent disputes and

providing infringement, invalidity and freedom to operate analysis. In-House counsel with experience

identifying and protecting patent positions, implementing procedures and hiring and managing outside counsel.

Analytical with the ability to relay pertinent information to attorneys, scientists and execut ives. Strong research

and writing skills, detail-oriented, and contributes well in a team environment.

EXPERIENCE

Tolerx, Inc., Cambridge, MA 1/2009-present

Intellectual Property Counsel

Work with team members to identify, define and manage patent portfolio relating to antibodies and related

technologies. Coordinate with development partners to manage global portfolio. Manage outside counsel to

protect patent positions and analyze freedom to operate.

Law Offices of Ellen D. Law, Evanston, IL 1998-2002

Principal

Represented Dow Chemical Company, including as:

Patent litigation counsel as part of multi-firm team of attorneys in case filed by Exxon in the U.S. District

Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Coordinated with experts and scientists to develop successful

non-infringement position.

Patent interference counsel as part of multi-firm team of attorneys in interferences relating to novel

catalyst technology.

Roper & Quigg, Chicago, IL 1992-1998

Partner

Litigated patent disputes with team of Harry Roper. Significant responsibilities, including as:

Litigation counsel to Dow Chemical Company regarding the catalyst portion of international collection of

related disputes with Exxon concerning catalysts and polymers.

Litigation counsel to develop affirmative case representing Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Critikon

regarding a catheter dispute against Becton Dickinson in District Court in Delaware including securing

preliminary injunction and finding of willful infringement.

Prepared defensive discovery and depositions presented to the jury in District Court in Delaware to

support obviousness argument in representing McNeil-PCC, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson in dispute filed

by Richardson Vicks, Inc.

U.S. Department of Justice, Honors Program Trial Attorney, Washington, D.C. 1990-1992

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Law Clerk, Wilmington, DE 1989-1990

Admitted in Massachusetts, Registered Patent Attorney

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 1989

Juris Doctorate, Founding Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1986

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, undergraduate research in cell biology

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