Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Lawrence Graham's current practice focuses on biotechnology patent prosecution and consulting. His main area of experience is biomolecules, including nucleic acids and proteins, and stem cells. Lawrence's practice includes management of clients' intellectual property dockets, U.S. and foreign patenting strategies, patent landscape analyses, and formal opinions of counsel with respect to noninfringement, invalidity, and inventorship. He has also litigated, for the defendant, patent cases involving hepatitis C technology. In addition to his bachelor's and master's degrees, Lawrence studied at Michigan State University in the genetics program and worked as a researcher for half a year at the National Institutes of Health research post in Phoenix, Arizona.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution

West Practice Categories

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

Bar Admissions

• California
• New Jersey
• New York

Education

• Brooklyn Law School

Published Works

• CIRM Funding Worth the Cost of Rules, Restrictions?, The Daily Transcript, Vol. 123, No. 208, 2008
• Equitable Equivalents: Biotechnology and Patent Law After Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co., 6 J. L. & Pol’y 741, 1998
• Structure and Sequence Variation in the Human Leptin Receptor Gene, coauther, American Society of Human Genetics, 1997
• Plant Chitinases, coauthor, Canadian J. Bot. 1057-83, 1995
• Use of the Luciferase (Tn5-lux) Reporter System to Study Rhizobium meliloti genes Responding to N/C/O2 limitation or Plant Factors and Their Role in Rhizosphere Competition, coauthor, Nitrogen Fixation: Fundamentals and Applications 195 (I.A. Tikhovich et al., eds., 1995
• Isolation, Characterization and Bacterial Expression of a Plant Chitinase Gene from Elm (Ulmus americana L). Fourth International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Amsterdam, coauthor, The Netherlands, 1994
• Cloning of Pathogenesis-Related Genes From Ulmus americana, coauthor, Dutch elm disease and Research: Cellular and Molecular Approaches 193 (M. B. Sticklen and J. L. Sherald, eds.), 1994
• Genetic Transformation in Ulmus Species (elms), coauthor, Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 397 (M. B. Sticklen and J. L. Sherald, eds.), 1994
• Factors Affecting the Electroporative Transformation of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Master’s thesis., 1991
• Corporate Criminal Liability of the Public Contractor - Are Guidelines Needed? 21 National Contract Management Journal, 9, 1988

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