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Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
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Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
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Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Alissa is a patent specialist in the Patents group. She focuses her practice on worldwide intellectual property protection and strategic counseling for life sciences, biotechnology and biomedical engineering clients. She previously worked as a patent scientist at Washington University’s Office of Technology Management. Alissa received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in Biological and Biomedical Sciences with a concentration in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis. She graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University, in Provo, UT, where she majored in Physiology and Developmental Biology and minored in Microbiology.
I have experience drafting and prosecuting patents across a wide variety of biotechnologies, including microbiology (microbiome, probiotics, antibiotics), pharmaceuticals (small and large molecule therapeutics), immunology (immuno-cell therapy, targeted cancer therapies, vaccines), regenerative medicine, biochemistry, molecular biology, diagnostic tests and medical devices.
As researchers dissect the complexities of the microbiome, the fight over probiotic patent protection continues to intensify. Worldwide patent litigation demonstrates that microbiome IP is a hotly contested field.
Brigham Young University, B.S., summa cum laude
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D.
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