Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Adriane Antler has extensive experience in obtaining and evaluating intellectual property protection and in providing strategic counsel to clients. Her practice involves the preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign patent applications in the areas of biotechnology, bioinformatics, and pharmaceuticals.

A substantial part of Adriane's practice is devoted to the preparation of patentability, infringement, and validity opinions. She performs due diligence evaluations of patent portfolios and provides advice on validity and freedom-to-operate issues in connection with potential investments, licenses, and acquisitions. Adriane participates extensively in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and has participated in patent litigations. She also negotiates and prepares contracts involving intellectual property issues such as license, consulting, and sponsored research agreements.

Representative clients include Rosetta Inpharmatics, Pathwork Diagnostics, Renovis, Antigenics, Exelixis, ConjuChem Biotechnologies, and Yale University.

Since November 2007, Adriane has served as a non-trustee member of the Technology Transfer Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller University. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Prana Biotechnology, Ltd., The General Hospital Corporation, Ashley I. Bush, Robert Cherny and Rudolph E. Tanzi v. P.N. Gerolymatos S.A. and Panayoti N. Gerolymatos, U.S.D.C., District of Columbia
• The Ohio Willow Wood Company v. ALPS South Corporation, U.S.D.C., S.D. OH, Case No. 2 04 1223
• Patent Due Diligence
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Rights Offering by NeuroSearch A/S

West Practice Categories

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

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New Jersey
• New York, First Department

Education

• Fordham University

Published Works

• The Patenting of Living Organisms and Natural products, coauthor, Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Volume 3, Second Editiion, Academic Press, 2000
• Book Review: Patent Law in Principle and in Practice, Bio/Technology 11:742, 1993
• The Utilization of United States Patents to Prevent the Importation and Sale of Gray Goods, coauthor, The Trademark Reporter 83:481-494, 1993
• I. Characterization of a Drosophila melanogaster gene homologous to the erbB oncogene and the epidermal growth factor receptor gene. II. Phosphorylation of tyrosine in vinculin upon transformation by various avian sarcoma viruses, Ph.D. Thesis, 1986
• Increased phosphorylation of tyrosine in vinculin does not occur upon transformation by some avian sarcoma viruses, Mol. Cell. Biol. 5:263-267, 1985
• Cloning and characterization of a Drosophila melanogaster gene homologous to the erbB oncogene, Abstract, Cold Spring Harbor RNA Tumor Virus Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1985
• Transformation by avian sarcoma viruses and the distribution of vinculin and actin in transformed cells: the role of vinculin tyrosine phosphorylation, Abstract, Cold Spring Harbor RNA Tumor Virus Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1983
• Glycogen debrancher deficiency is reproduced in muscle culture, Ann. Neurol. 98:283-288, 1981

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