Patent counsel grounded in deep scientific knowledge

Michele Washington, Ph.D., is a registered patent attorney who prepares and prosecutes patent applications and assists clients on strategic U.S. and international patent portfolio development. She also has experience handling patent infringement, freedom-to-operate and patent invalidity analyses, as well as licensing strategies, prosecuting trademark applications and addressing trademark dispute matters. Michele counsels clients such as individual inventors, university tech transfer offices, startups and large research companies in various life sciences technology areas, including:

• Biological therapies
• Immunotherapy
• Diagnostics
• Drug delivery
• Medical devices

Michele’s technical experience is in the field of molecular and cellular biology. Her graduate thesis was directed to studying key players and mutations in the vitamin D receptor signaling pathway that impacts prostate cancer cell growth, and her postdoctoral research focused on the effects of autophagy on chemotherapeutic drug efficacy in ovarian cancer cell cultures and tumors in mice.

Bar Admissions

• Arizona
• Colorado

Education

• Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D., 2010)
  • Molecular and Cell Biology

• Colorado College (B.A., 2003)
  • Biology

• University of Denver Sturm College of Law (J.D., 2014)

• "Across the STEMverse"
• "OCI Best Practices for First-Gen Students"
• "Patent Prosecution Update"
• "Trends Related to Licensing Intellectual Property Out of University and Research Institutions"
• "Women in Transactional Law"
• Patents and Copyright Changes in the New NAFTA
• Utilizing the Budapest Treaty for Biological Deposits in U.S. Patents
• What Tax Court's Mylan Legal Fee Ruling Means for IP Suits

Seminar

• Recent Trends in USPTO Treatment in Claim Terms and How it Impacts Universities