Lovejoy, Brett A.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Brett Lovejoy counsels clients in connection with intellectual property portfolio development and enforcement. He has written and prosecuted hundreds of patents involving a wide range of practical applications such as computer-implemented technology, renewable energy, diagnostics, medical devices, chemistry, and novelty products. Brett's practice includes prelitigation work, such as infringement, noninfringement and invalidity analyses, as well as litigation of patents, trademarks, and contracts.

Brett currently represents Alexx, Inc. in a spectrum of disputes involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement relating to the sale of unauthorized goods. Some of these disputes have been litigated favorably in federal court while others are presently being litigated or have been settled favorably out of court. Brett is currently on the trial team defending Edison Mission Energy in a patent lawsuit brought by Exergetic Systems.

Brett also has served Becton Dickenson, Celgene, DNA2.0, FlashFoto, Hands on Mobile, Pabst, Pathwork Informatics, Roche, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Searchme, Solyndra, Spectral Image, and StrongMail on substantial legal matters.

Brett has published more than a dozen articles in scientific journals, including one describing doctoral work he did with others while in the laboratory of David Eisenberg at UCLA ("Crystal Structure of a Synthetic Triple-Stranded a-Helical Bundle," Science 259, 1288-1293 (1993)) and another describing work he did with others while employed as a research scientist at Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline) ("Structure of the Catalytic Domain of Fibroblast Collagenase Complexed with an Inhibitor," Science 263, 375-377 (1994)).

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Litigation
• Life Sciences

Representative Cases

• Actiontec builds patent portfolio for router software
• Agnitio builds patent portfolio for microfluidic devices
• Alexx favorably settles trademark infringement dispute involving unauthorized goods
• Alexx opens infringement suit against Charm Zone over IP rights for key chain
• BD Diagnostics establishes patent portfolio for molecular diagnostic sepsis tests
• DNA 2.0 builds patent portfolio for DNA synthesis technology, algorithms, and software.
• E-Radio develops global patent portfolio for clean technology
• FlashFoto develops global patent portfolio for digital image processing
• Hands-On Mobile establishes patent portfolio for cell phone video games
• Ignite Innovations builds patent portfolio for low cost lighting solutions for third world countries
• NeuroGrafix files patent infringement suit against Siemens Medical Solutions over diagnostic neuropathy systems , (2010)
• Pathwork Diagnostics establishes patent portfolio for cancer diagnostics and bioinformatics
• Roche Palo Alto establishes patent portfolio for bioinformatics
• Rosetta Inpharmatics establishes patent portfolio for expression profiling, genomics, and bioinformatics
• Searchme develops patent portfolio for search engine software
• Solyndra establishes global patent portfolio for solar cells

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Santa Clara University
• U of California - Los Angeles
• U of California - Santa Cruz

Published Works

• Design and Synthesis of 4-Azaindoles as Inhibitors of p38 MAP Kinase, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 46, 4702-4713, 2003
• Oxindole-Based Inhibitors of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDD2): Design, Synthesis, Enzymatic Activities, and X-ray Crystallographic Analysis, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 44, 4339-4358, 2003
• Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia in Rats by CDK, Science 291, 134-137, 2001
• Crystal Structures of MMP-1 and -13 Reveal the Structural Basis for Selectivity of Collagenase Inhibitors, Nature Structural Biology 6, 217-221, 1999
• Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of the Human Cell Cycle Control Phosphatase, Cdc25A, coauthor with E.B. Faumen, J.P. Cogswell, W.J. Rocque, W. Holmes, V.G. Montana, M.J. Rink and M.A. Super, Cell 93, 1-10, 1998
• Crystallization of a designed peptide from a molten globule ensemble, coauthor with D.P. Raleigh, W.F. DeGrado, D. Anderson, N. Ogihara and D. Eisenberg, Folding & Design 1, 57-64, 1996
• Structural Analysis of the Catalytic Domain of Human Fibroblast Collagenase, coauthor with A. Cleasby, A.M. Hassell, M.A. Luther, D. Weigl, G. McGeehan, M.H. Lambert and S.R. Jordan, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 732, 375-378, 1994
• Crystal Structures of Recombinant 19kDa Human Fibroblast Collagenase Complexed to Itself, coauthor with A.M. Hassell, M.A. Luther, D. Weighl and S. R. Jordan, Biochemistry 33, 8207-8217, 1994
• Structure of the Catalytic Domain of Fibroblast Collagenase Complexed with an Inhibitor, coauthor A. Cleasby, A.M. Hassell, K. Longley, M.A. Luther, D. Weigl, G. McGeehan, A.B. McElroy, D. Drewry, M.H. Lambert, S.R. Jordan, Science 263, 375-377, 1994
• Crystal Structure of Canine and Bovine Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF), coauthor with D. Cascio and D. Eisenberg, Journal of Molecular Biology 234, 640-653, 1993
• Crystal Structure of a Synthetic Triple-Stranded -Helical Bundle, coauthor with S. Choe, D. Cascio, D.K. McRorie, W.F. DeGrado and D. Eisenberg, Science 259, 1993
• Crystallization of Proton Channel Peptides, coauthor with K.S. Akerfeldt, W.F. DeGrado and D. Eisenberg, Protein Science 1, 1073-1077, 1992
• X-Ray Grade Crystals of a Designed Alpha-Helical Coiled Coil, coauthor with T.C. Le, R. Lüthy, D. Cascio, K.T. O'Neil, W.F. DeGrado and D. Eisenberg,Protein Science 1, 956-957, 1992

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