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Lawyer Overview

Dr. Andrej Barbic is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 2005 as a technology specialist.

Practice

Dr. Barbic's practice focuses on US and foreign patent prosecution and due diligence analyses, particularly in the fields of small molecules, pharmaceutical formulations, rational drug design, proteomics, biotechnology, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Dr. Barbic has worked with clients on various aspects of ANDA-related pharmaceutical litigations under the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984, as well as medical device patent infringement litigations in federal courts and at the International Trade Commission. Dr. Barbic also has counseled clients on vulnerability of blockbuster drugs to challenges by the generic pharmaceutical industry. He has prosecuted patents in various fields, including small molecules, pharmaceutical formulations, rational drug design, bioinformatics, proteomics, combinatorial chemistry, and biotechnology.

As a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, Dr. Barbic developed a novel assay for rapid analysis of protein-DNA interactions and gained experience in bioinformatics. From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Barbic served as graduate researcher and teaching fellow at Yale University, where he determined a high-resolution structure and curvature of an intrinsically bent DNA molecule using heteronuclear Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer techniques. Dr. Barbic also advanced the field of analysis of nucleic acid structural parameters and presented research results at several international conferences.

Prior to his graduate work, Dr. Barbic researched pharmaceutical formulations for a generic pharmaceutical company and synthesized novel substrates for studies of enzymes in organic solvents.

In 1991, Dr. Barbic participated in the XXIII International Chemistry Olympiad in Poland on the first team ever to represent Slovenia at this competition.

Dr. Barbic is allowed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Publications

• Shann Kerner, Ph.D., Andrej Barbic, Ph.D., Kyle Robertson, "Examples Requirements for Patentability of Inventions in US and Foreign Jurisdictions," Bloomberg Intellectual Property Law Reports, Vol. 3, No. 37 (September 7, 2009).
• Barbic, A., D.P. Zimmer, and D.M. Crothers. "Structural Origins of Adenine-tract Bending." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100 (2003): 2369-73.
• Barbic, A., and D.M. Crothers. "Comparison of Analyses of DNA Curvature." J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 21 (2003): 89-97.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property

Representative Cases

• Penwest Pharmaceuticals

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Suffolk University Law School, 2007
  JD
  Honors: cum laude 
• Yale University, 2001
  PhD, Biophysical Chemistry - Biophysics
  Honors:  
• Lawrence University, 1995
  BA, Chemistry
• University of Chicago, 1994

Published Works

• Examples Requirements for Patentability of Inventions in U.S. and Foreign Jurisdictions, 2009
• Structural Origins of Adenine-tract Bending, 2003
• Comparison of Analyses of DNA Curvature, 2003

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