Rahul Pathak assists clients with intellectual property rights in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry. His practice includes patent prosecution and portfolio management, patent opinions, patent reexaminations and patent due diligence. Representative clients include start-up companies, established companies, leading life science companies, academic institutions and investment firms in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, renewable chemical, food and energy storage industries.
During his legal career of more than 15 years, he has advised clients on developing and managing global patent portfolios for marketed pharmaceuticals and new chemical entities, conducting intellectual property due diligence for private and public investments in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and developing a patent portfolio of biofuels.
Rahul holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and has extensive experience with small molecule pharmaceuticals, peptide pharmaceuticals, polypeptide pharmaceuticals, nucleic acid diagnostics, polypeptide biochemistry, structural biology and molecular biology.
Rahul was named to the Daily Journal’s 2015, 2014 and 2013 lists of Top 25 intellectual property portfolio managers in California – an annual list of the most highly regarded lawyers in the state who advise clients in the management of their IP portfolios or patent prosecutions. Rahul is a co-author of “Biofuels: A (Carbon) Balanced Act,” published in the San Diego Daily Transcript in 2008.
Education:
- University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1999
- Yale University, B.Sc., Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, summa cum laude, 1991
- California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1997
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