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Cooley Expands IP Practice in San Diego
| Source: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - June 6, 2008) - Cooley
Godward Kronish LLP announced today that Jessica Wolff is joining the
Firm's San Diego office as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice
group. Wolff is a shareholder in Heller Ehrman's San Diego office.
Wolff is a seasoned intellectual property litigator and patent counselor
serving the life sciences industry. She has advised hundreds of biotech
and pharmaceutical companies on IP matters during her 15-year career.
"Cooley has one of the leading life sciences practices nationwide and our
San Diego office is the market leader in representing life sciences
companies," said Fred Muto, partner in charge of Cooley's San Diego office.
"Jessica's arrival further strengthens our ability to advise these
companies on patent and IP matters that are critical to their success."
"I am delighted to be joining Cooley," said Wolff. "The Firm's life
sciences and intellectual property practices are highly regarded both in
San Diego and nationally. I look forward to being a member of the Cooley
team and to helping further expand the Firm's intellectual property
capabilities."
Wolff's practice will focus on IP litigation and patent portfolio
management within the life science industry. She has represented start-ups
and mature public companies in a wide variety of intellectual property
disputes including patent, trade secret, and breach of IP license actions.
She advises biotech and pharmaceutical companies on intellectual property
matters and has extensive experience in managing worldwide patent
portfolios, conducting freedom of use analyses for developing products,
drafting invalidity and non-infringement opinions and conducting due
diligence. She has broad experience litigating chemical and biotech patents
on antibodies, antigen assays, device calibration techniques, DNA
amplification techniques, drug formulations and genetic probes, medical
devices and viruses.
Recently Wolff successfully represented a pharmaceutical company in a
cutting edge Lanham Act litigation against five manufactures of unapproved
quinine sulfate that resulted in consent judgments, a preliminary
injunction in a separate litigation against another manufacturer, and
ultimately achieved Orphan Drug exclusivity for quinine sulfate.
Wolff earned her B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College
in 1986, an M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1988 and a J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law in 1992. She is a frequent speaker and author on IP matters
facing life sciences companies.
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