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Erich E. Veitenheimer, III is a Partner in the Patent Counseling & Prosecution practice group and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. He joined the firm in 2005 and is a resident in the Washington DC office.
Dr. Veitenheimer specializes in developing and implementing strategies to enable life science and biotech companies, universities and non-profit research organizations to procure worldwide protection for their inventions and/or to provide them with the necessary freedom to operate. Representative client technologies include RNA interference (RNAi), vaccines, biologics, diagnostic testing, biological separations, nutriceuticals, biological informational systems, transformed organisms and complex breeding protocols. He has extensive experience in obtaining and defending patent positions by using practical, cost-effective approaches to resolving patent and trade secret disputes.
In addition to integrated and focused patent portfolio management, Dr. Veitenheimer provides counseling to national and international clients for a wide variety of intellectual property matters including opinions, due diligences, licensing negotiations, agreements, patent interferences and oppositions. He speaks frequently at international forums on a wide variety of intellectual property rights issues ranging from evaluating the various forms of protections available for novel non-human organisms to understanding the relevant rights of indigenous populations.
Prior to joining the Firm, Dr. Veitenheimer was a partner at Morgan Lewis. He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics (major) and Statistics (minor) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received a Bachelor of Sciences in Agronomy summa cum laude from Washington State University. Dr. Veitenheimer served as an Ocean Systems Technician in the U.S. Navy, held positions as a biostatistician with DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics and as a senior breeder with DeKalb Genetics International, and was a Primary Patent Examiner in the biotechnology group of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Dr. Veitenheimer is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he received the Leon Robbin Patent Award. He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in the jurisdictions of Maryland and the District of Columbia. He has an established record of pro bono work and legal leadership roles and presently serves as Co-chair of the Legislation Committee for the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Education- Georgetown University Law Center
JD, 1998, Leon Robbin Patent Award - University of Wisconsin-Madison
PHD Genetics & Statistics, 1985 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS Genetics & Statistics, 1982 - Washington State University
BS Agronomy, 1980, summa cum laude
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
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