Melissa Hunter-Ensor, Ph.D.

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Patent Portfolio Management
  Strategic Counseling: Devised a strategy for protecting
  licensing a novel nucleic acid amplification method resulting in patent grant in the U.S.
  numerous international jurisdictions in under two years.
  Developed a worldwide IP portfolio for a privately held company for a biologic agent that was granted an emergency exemption by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in 17 states.
  Developed a world-wide IP portfolio prosecution strategy for a public company that resulted in patent protection for Alzheimer's disease, lung cancer, ovarian cancer
  peripheral artery disease diagnostics.
  Crafted an international strategy resulting in granted patents for a local drug delivery device that is in clinical use.
  Technology Transactions
  Licensing: A key member of a team assisting a Japanese pharmaceutical company with IP Iicensing due diligence that formed the basis for a multi-billion dollar acquisition of a publicly held biotechnology company.
  Conducted a patent l
  scape analysis on behalf of multiple university clients that informed their licensing negotiations with venture capital investors resulting in the successful formation of a university-licensed start-up.
  Advised an international pharmaceutical company in licensing exclusive, worldwide rights for research, development, manufacturing
  commercialization of a polynucleotide-based therapeutic.
  Litigation
  Pre-Litigation Strategy: Advised a publicly held pharmaceutical company in evaluating whether internet sales of a small molecule pharmaceutical product were exempt from infringement under the safe harbor provided by U.S.C. 271(e)(1).
  Represented the General Hospital Corporation in an inventorship dispute that resulted in summary judgment for the hospital, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  Represented a university in an inventorship dispute that involved undergraduate research.
  Worked with the university's general counsel to revise the institution's Intellectual Property Policy with regard to undergraduate researchers.
  The above representations were h
  led by Dr. Hunter-Ensor prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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