ANNE L. ST. MARTIN is a chemical patent protection attorney in the firm's Chemical Patent Prosecution group with a wide breadth of international experience. Ms. St. Martin works to secure patent rights for major international chemical, electronic, plastics and glass corporations in a wide range of technologies. These include biotechnology, coatings, cosmetics, electronic chemicals, fluorine chemicals, glass products (flat glass, automotive glass, display glass and electronic glass), inorganic chemistry, imaging devices, light-emitting materials, liquid crystals, metallurgy, organic chemistry, petrochemistry, petrochemical processing, pharmaceuticals, plastics, polymers, process systems engineering, semiconductors, textiles, and toners. Ms. St. Martin's exposure to international patent laws and prosecution enables her to better understand and communicate with foreign clients when explaining U.S. patent laws and designing U.S. prosecution strategies.
During both her undergraduate and graduate years of education, Ms. St. Martin studied in numerous countries including Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Namibia, Sri Lanka, China, and Bangladesh. She has a keen interest in international comparative patent law and international intellectual property (IP) regulations and treaties, including Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Paris Convention, and World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlements. These interests led her to spend a summer studying Chinese intellectual property law in Beijing, and a semester working at a European patent firm in Munich, where she gained experience in European Patent Office (EPO) prosecution, EPO opposition proceedings, and German patent litigation.
Ms. St. Martin has studied international commercial arbitration, in particular International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (ICC), International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes Arbitration (ICSID), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules (UNCITRAL), and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Arbitration. She competed as an oralist for Franklin Pierce Law Center in the 2008 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. The following year, she served as the coach of Franklin Pierce Law Center's 2009 team, accompanying the team from selection through to Vienna, where one team member was awarded an honorable mention. Ms. St. Martin continues to stay active in the Vis Community and has served as a guest judge for numerous pre-moot arbitration competitions in the U.S. and Germany.
Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
American Chemical Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Accolades
National Science Foundation Chemistry Research Grant, Moscow State University (2005)
Abbott Bioresearch Center, Medicinal Chemistry Internship (2004)
Resources
Publications
USPTO Self-Report on Track I Prioritized Examination
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Arbitration: A Quick And Effective Means For Patent Dispute Resolution
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Arbitration Of Patent Disputes In The United States
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Arbitration: A Quick and Effective Means for Patent Dispute Resolution
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Thailand Breaks Blockbuster Drug Patents, Legally?
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
WHO Reflects on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Chemistry Research:
· "Alginate Stabilized Emulsions and Their Potential Use for Drug Delivery," Honors Thesis (2006). Research completed L'É Nationale Supé des Industries Chimiques in Nancy, France.
· "Host-guest complexation of Poly(propylene imine) Dendrimers with Cu2+ and lipids," paper presented at Moscow State University and University of Arkansas (2005). Research completed at Moscow State University and the Moscow Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in Russia, through a National Science Foundation Research Grant.
Blogs
Board Reverses Examiner for Dismissing Structural Limitation Imparted by Preamble
Friday, April 20, 2012
Ex parte Quijano et al (Appeal 2010-005756, Serial no. 11/263,302) turned on whether the preamble imparted a structural limitation to the claim. The independent claim at issue reads as follows:
"Claim 24: A gastric space filler device comprising an inflatable space filler with a first reference shape...
Board Reverses Examiner for Failing to Meet the Burden Required to Challenge Enablement
Friday, February 10, 2012
In Ex parte Stux et al. (Appeal 2010-003936; Application serial no.
Board Reverses Examiner for Overly Relying on a Dictionary Definition Without Consulting the Specification
Friday, February 03, 2012
In Ex parte Bradley et al. (Appeal 2011-005978; Application serial no.
Ex parte Mellott
Friday, June 24, 2011
Although this case was not a win on all rejections, the small win and notable issue in this case is whether it is obvious to optimize a variable which is recognized in the art as result effective even if the art does not disclose an overlapping range.
Ex parte Brusilow
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
In Ex parte Brusilow (Appeal 2011-001751 in U.S. Application No. 10/758,415) the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) reversed the Examiner's finding of obviousness because the references relied upon "taught away" from their combination.
Zetia Patent Litigation Settles: Reissue Bullet Claims Questioned
Friday, May 14, 2010
Subsequent to the Ex Parte Tanaka BPAI decision (Appeal No. 2009-000234) on December 9, 2009, Judge Jose L. Linares of the U.S.