Professional Experience

Lawrence S. Perry has extensive experience practicing before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including interferences, reexaminations, reissues and all phases of patent prosecution in biotechnical, chemical, pharmaceutical, magneto-optical, metallurgical and mechanical technologies. Mr. Perry has extensive opinion work concerning noninfringement, invalidity and freedom to practice in these and other fields.

Mr. Perry has also lectured at various professional law associations:

• Lecturer, Schendel v. Curtis, New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Joint Patent Seminar, May 30, 1997
  
  
• Lecturer, Utility Requirements in Biotechnology Patent Applications, Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association, Joint Patent Seminar, April 12, 1995
  
  
• Lecturer, Patenting and Licensing of Human Monoclonal Antibodies, International Business Communications Annual Conference, February 7, 1994
  
  
• Lecturer, Understanding Monoclonal Antibodies, Hybridomas and Other Exotic Technologies, AIPLA Mid-Winter Conference, January 25, 1994
  
  
• Lecturer, Organizing Your Appeal Brief, Symposium on Practice Before the U.S.P.T.O. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, June 10, 1991

Awards and Recognition

Lawrence Perry is listed in Legal 500 2008 for Patent re-examination.

For information on the selection process, see:

http://www.legal500.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=772&Itemid=1

Education

J.D., with honors, ITT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1984
B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, 1981

Bar Admissions

State of New York, 1989; State of Illinois, 1984; U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois; U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Professional Activities

American and New York Bar Associations; American Bar Association Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section Committee on Reexamination; American and New York Intellectual Property Lawyers Associations; Member, American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association Interference Committee

Additional Publications

Property Rights in Living Matter: Is New Law Required?, 68 Den.U.L.Rev.2