Guidance on international and domestic patents

Elizabeth O'Connell focuses on patent prosecution, including preparing and prosecuting domestic and international applications. As a polymer chemist, she has technical knowledge of monomer synthesis, polymer synthesis, cross-coupling techniques and characterization of resulting materials.

Prior to joining the firm, Elizabeth was a graduate researcher who performed extensive organic small molecule synthesis and polymerization in air free conditions, analyzed organic molecules with standard techniques (NMR, MS, IT, UV-Vis, DART and LC-MS), and studied conjugated polymers. In addition, she also gave presentations of resulting materials at national and regional conferences, and reviewed and summarized data for proposals, project updates and scientific journals.

Education

• Tennessee Tech University (B.S., 2014)
  • Applied Chemistry

• University of Memphis (M.S., 2017)
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Summer research program studying inorganic chromophores (2014) 

• University of Tennessee (Ph.D., 2022)
  • Polymer Chemistry