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Rutva K. Shukla

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Bar Admissions & Certifications

Admitted to the State Bar of California

Bar Number: 303379

Registered to Practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office Registration Number: 67,839

Education

University of California, Davis School of Law

Juris Doctor, May 2014

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick Bachelor’s, cum laude, Genetics; History, January 2010 Experience & Employment

Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), Davis, CA September 2012 – November 2015 Patent Analyst

• Conduct freedom-to-operate analysis, create intellectual property (IP) landscapes and perform patent portfolio assessments for clients

• Research companies and their patent portfolios through analysis of claims, abstracts, prosecution histories, and INPADOC family members

• Identify key competitors, analyze patent trends and generate visual representations of data through ThemeScape Mapping, charts, and graphs

• Databases: Thomson Innovation Index, GenomeQuest, USPTO Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR), NCBI Gene and Protein Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)

• Past clients include the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and UC Davis performers for the California Pierce’s Disease Board National Institutes of Health – National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) June 2012 – August 2012 Technology Transfer Office, Bethesda, Maryland

Legal Intern

• Researched and implemented best practices to market portfolio of approximately 30 genomics-related technologies available for licensing

• Drafted marketing materials including abstracts and technology summaries to support licensing efforts

• Reviewed and modified the following types of technology transfer contracts: Transactional Agreements, Conditional Gift Fund Agreements, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements

• Participated in cross-Institute negotiations for Cooperative Research and Development Agreements XenoBiotic Laboratories, Inc., Plainsboro, NJ February 2010 – May 2010 Associate Scientist for Quantitative Whole-Body Autoradiography

• Monitored and evaluated animal metabolism of radioactively labeled preclinical drugs to test pharmaceutical client research

• Processed animals by administering of test articles, freezing and slicing animal carcasses and capturing images using Image Scanner

• Used image analysis software to visualize and interpret concentrations of radioactivity in tissue samples and report findings to client The Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Piscataway, NJ January 2008 – May 2008 Laboratory Researcher

• Isolated, identified and analyzed alcohol dehydrogenase gene and protein sequences of a nematode, Caenorhabditis brenneri

• Implemented molecular biology techniques, including molecular cloning (cDNA synthesis, bacterial plasmid transformation) and DNA extraction (DNA miniprep, PCR, electrophoretic analysis) to isolate gene sequence

• Used DNA Sequence Analysis Program (DSAP) to identify DNA sequence

• Utilized protein and gene sequence databases (Pubmed, BLAST, etc.) to analyze sequence function and alignment to other organisms Academic Publications & Affiliations

Intellectual Property Landscape of Advanced Biofuels in the United States In Progress Identify active technology markets in support of commercialization strategies for Advanced Biofuel Products Gene & Protein Sequences of C. brenneri: May 2008

• Caenorhabditis brenneri clone 5D5.08 [short-chain dehydrogenase] (dhs-18) mRNA, partial cds. Gula, N.M., Shukla, R.K., Vershon, A.K. and Nemeroff, M.E. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nuccore&id=187476479

• Short-chain dehydrogenase protein sequence [Caenorhabditis brenneri]. Gula, N.M., Shukla, R.K., Vershon, A.K. and Nemeroff, M.E. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=ACD12700.1 Affiliations: Women’s Intellectual Property Law Association (WIPLA), Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), Women in Bio (WIB)

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