Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Dr. Tamera Weisser's practice includes client counseling as well as foreign and domestic patent portfolio development, management, and enforcement in all areas of biotechnology. Representative technologies include immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, genetics, cell biology, gene therapy, and medical devices. Tamera has particularly extensive experience in the field of antibody technology and has represented clients such as MedImmune, MacroGenics, and Kirin Pharma in developing their antibody portfolios. Tamera also prepares patent validity, noninfringement, freedom-to-operate, and due diligence opinions for corporate clients as well as venture capital firms.

Prior to joining Jones Day in 2004, Tamera spent five years as a patent agent at a large Washington, D.C. law firm. In addition, she was formerly a research scientist at Agracetus, Inc. (currently Powderject Vaccines, Inc.) in Madison, Wisconsin and the Emory University Vaccine Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tamera is a member in the American Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the San Diego chapter of the Association for Women in Science.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Establishing Patent Portfolio for Embosphere®
• Issuance of Shares by Ambrx, Inc.
• Molecular Diagnostics Patent Portfolio
• Patent Due Diligences
• Patent Portfolio Management and Strategy for pIgR technology
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Technology
• Patent Prosecution of Synagis® and Numax™
• U.S. and Foreign Patent Prosecution

West Practice Categories

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

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Georgetown University

Published Works

• Th1 genetic adjuvants modulate immune responses in neonates, Vaccine. 19(13-14): 1764-1771, 2001
• DNA vaccines: Basic studies and applications, in Advances in Virus Research, K. Maramorosch, F. Murphy, and A. Shatkin eds., Academic Press, New York, NY. 1-74, 2000
• Influenza DNA vaccines: Differential effects of maternal antibody on immune responses to HA and NP, J. Virol, 74(17):7787-7793, 2000
• Characterization of immune responses following neonatal DNA immunization, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Doctoral Thesis, 2000
• Studies on antibody responses following neonatal immunization with influenza hemagglutinin DNA or protein, Virology, 257(2):406-414, 1999
• Nucleic acid immunizations, in Current Protocols in Immunology, R. Coico ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY. 2.14.1-2.14.19, 1998
• Influenza nucleoprotein-specific immunoglobulin G subclass and cytokine responses elicited by DNA vaccination are dependent on the route of vector DNA delivery, J. Virol, 70(9):6119-6125, 1996
• Gene gun-based nucleic acid immunization: Elicitation of humoral and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses following epidermal delivery of nanogram quantities of DNA, Vaccine, 13(15):1427-1430, 1995
• Accell® particle-mediated DNA immunization elicits humoral, cytotoxic, and protective immune responses, AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses, 10 Suppl. 2:S43-S45, 1994

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