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    Juliet DeFrancisco

    Associate


    • Boston
    • Office617.345.1382
    • jdefrancisco@nixonpeabody.com
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    Introduction

    Juliet focuses her practice on representing clients on high-stakes patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation matters.

    Practice Areas

    Intellectual Property

    Industries

    Cannabis

    My focus

    Patent Litigation

    Leveraging my chemical engineering and chemistry backgrounds, I help clients resolve patent disputes across a wide range of areas, including small molecule, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical therapeutics, polymer and membrane technologies, medical devices, scientific instruments, green and nanotechnologies, water treatment, and design patents. I also have substantial experience in cannabis-related technologies, including the synthesis of cannabinoid derivatives, advanced growth systems, and retail packaging.

    Trademark, Trade Secret, and Copyright Litigation

    I help clients strategically manage and enforce their intellectual property portfolios, including management and enforcement of their trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. I also assist them in approaching claims of infringement and misappropriation, as well as unfair competition claims and related disputes.

    Additionally, I advise clients on patent and trademark prosecution, including drafting applications and portfolio development, and I am experienced with due diligence and opinion work.

    Looking ahead

    Enforcement actions tend to increase in times of economic uncertainty. This trend, coupled with the billions of dollars now being devoted to pandemic-related innovations and their protection, suggests that we may soon see a substantial uptick in patent litigation actions.

    Insights

    • “Patent Opportunities Growing for Cannabis Businesses", Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, June 2022

    In the news

    • Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal

      Patent opportunities growing for cannabis businesses

      Chicago associate George Dandalides and Boston associate Juliet DeFrancisco, both of the Intellectual Property group, co-authored this article, which explains how cannabis and cannabis-adjacent businesses might be able to take advantage of patent protection opportunities for their products.
      May 24, 2022

    Admitted to practice

    Massachusetts
    New York
    U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

    Education

    Boston College Law School, J.D.
    Columbia University, B.S., Chemical Engineering, Economics
    University of St. Joseph, M.S., Chemistry

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      Subject matter eligibility considerations can now be deferred under new USPTO pilot program

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      May 8, 2021
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