Dr. Joan Ellis has over 25 years experience in the patent industry, she focuses her practice on patent prosecution and litigation with a particular emphasis in the chemical and life science fields.
Dr. Ellis represents clients in post-grant proceedings and ex parte appeals before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board as well as patent infringement litigations at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the International Trade Commission.
She regularly serves as an expert witness in district court litigations involving inventorship, inequitable conduct, derivation, double-patenting, and priority disputes as well as USPTO procedure. She also conducts arbitration proceedings involving a wide variety of contractual and patent disputes.
Dr. Ellis has a strong life sciences background and over 20 years experience as a patent examiner and an Administrative Patent Judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As a judge, Dr. Ellis authored over 250 ex parte and 50 inter partes decisions. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a Damon Runyon fellow at the Rockefeller University where she conducted research involving genetic material.
Her experimental areas included molecular biology, particularly as it relates to the study of human malarial genes and immunology. She holds a patent directed to an antigenic malaria surface protein.
Dr. Ellis also serves as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association and is an Officer of the Board of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court.
In addition, Dr. Ellis has represented political asylum applicants and veterans pro bono before the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the Board of Veteran’s Appeals, respectively.
Education:
Southern Illinois University, B.A.
New York University School of Medicine, Ph.D.
The George Washington University National Law School, J.D.
Bar Admission:
District of Columbia
Professional Involvement:
District of Columbia Bar, Member
Maryland State Bar Association, Member
Federal Circuit Bar Association, Member
United States Supreme Court Bar, Member
Cost
Rate : $$$
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