Dr. Cynthia B. Rothschild practices intellectual property law. Dr. Rothschild has worked with a variety of companies and universities to develop their IP portfolios in areas relating to pharmaceuticals, chemical compounds, and biotechnology. She is also involved in counseling clients with respect to the development of new technologies, obtaining patent protection for new inventions, as well as providing assessments relating the strength of their IP portfolios and strategies for enforcement of patent rights. Dr. Rothschild's professional experience includes serving as a research assistant professor at Wake Forest University Medical School where her research focused on genetic analysis of complex diseases, including cancer and diabetes. In collaboration with a local biotechnology company, Dr. Rothschild developed a highly sensitive assay for detection of genetic changes associated with cancer. In 2011, Dr. Rothschild was selected as one of the Triad's Women Extraordinaire by Business Leader Magazine. Dr. Rothschild is very involved with pro bono work, and received the 2002-2003 North Carolina Intellectual Property Section Award for Pro Bono Work. Dr. Rothschild is a former Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section and remains active in the Section. Additionally, Dr. Rothschild has lectured at Wake Forest University Law School on topics ranging from bioethics to patenting of genetic sequences. She is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Professional & Community Activities North Carolina Bar Association, Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section (2010-2011), Section Member (2006-Present), and Past Chair of the CLE Committee (2006-2007) Winston-Salem Symphony, Board of Directors, Chair of Nominating Committee Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Past Secretary and Member of Board of Directors and Secretary Bowman Gray Child Guidance Center, Past Chair and Member of Board of Directors Industries Health & Life Sciences Experience Patent prosecution and counseling for clinical laboratory services provider, Represent a leading clinical laboratory services provider in intellectual property related services, including freedom to operate analyses, patent license negotiation and review, collaborative research and development agreement preparation and analysis, patent prosecution and litigation services and due diligence and pre-litigation counseling. Technologies include clinical diagnostic services; robotics; bioinformatics; genome mapping; genetic testing; gene mapping and counseling; companion diagnostics; blood testing services, and biotechnology. Security deposits for tenants, Represents the action of tenants seeking the return of their security deposits from landlords who withheld them in violation of law. The work of these lawyers has recovered thousands of dollars for tenants, enabling them to move into other housing and move on with their lives. Patent counseling services for leading pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Provided patent counseling services including patent license review, dispute resolution and pre-litigation counseling to leading pharmaceuticals manufacturer related to reexamination and reissue applications for large and small molecule therapeutics. Guardian ad litem, Represent children and/or their best interests in a variety of settings and courts. Lawyers routinely serve as guardians ad litem, representing the best interests of children in a variety of contexts. In Atlanta and in Winston-Salem, lawyers have represented the best interests of hundreds of children whose parents are disputing their custody. The guardian ad litem is charged with getting to know the child, studying the circumstances of the child's life, interviewing witnesses, reviewing documents and ultimately, making an oral or written recommendation to the appointing court as to what is in the child's best interests. Grandparent adoption, Represents caregivers seeking to adopt children. One of the firm's signature pro bono programs is the Grandparent Adoption Program. Dozens of lawyers have been trained to represent grandparents and other relative caregivers who step up to raise young children in their extended family when the children's parents are unable or unwilling to do so. Working in partnership with local legal aid programs, lawyers accept referrals of eligible families, and prepare and file the required documents to effect the adoption. Hundreds of children's lives have been stabilized as a result of the firm's involvement. Protective orders for domestic violence victims, Represents victims of domestic violence who are seeking protective orders for themselves and their children against batterers and stalkers. Patent prosecution for drug discovery company, Represent an emerging drug discovery company with small and large molecule therapeutics with respect to patent prosecution and related counseling. Assisted with providing transactional related patent due diligence services, including performance of patent related due diligence on potential partners, and responding to patent related due diligence requests from potential partners. Also, the firm assisted in the drafting and negotiation of strategic partnership agreements, joint development agreements, patent license agreements, employment and consulting agreements and related transactional documents. Patent prosecution for University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Represent University of North Carolina at Charlotte in preparing and prosecuting patent applications relating to bioinformatics. Also, participated in symposia providing assistance to start-up ventures. Patent litigation for leading pharmaceutical company, Represented a leading producers of pharmaceuticals products in a patent infringement suit brought by a competitor asserting that certain ibuprofen softgels made by our client infringed a patent owned by the competitor. The parties settled the dispute before Banner filed an answer. Death penalty representation, Represented a former town councilman and military veteran who had been convicted of killing his wife and sentenced to death. Our work included interviewing jurors to determine if there was any basis for a juror claim. The team analyzed the bases for jury strikes, interviewed jurors in person about the trial, and provided their findings to the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL). The findings were included in a motion for appropriate relief filed with the trial court. The judge ordered an evidentiary hearing on the juror claim the Center raised, pertaining to jurors reading the Bible and consulting a minister about whether to impose life or death. The Center reported that the judge seemed genuinely troubled by the allegations, and was hopeful that if the testimony came in as anticipated, it could prevail and obtain sentencing relief for the client. Soon thereafter, we received word that the judge vacated the clients death sentence because of juror misconduct during sentencing deliberations, discovered through juror interviews conducted by our team of lawyers. The team learned that a juror consulted her minister on the first night of sentencing deliberations. Her minister, who was a former probation officer, explained that a death sentence is followed by a series of appeals and that the decision can be reversed. The judge ruled that this extrinsic information potentially tainted the jury by alleviating them of their responsibility to make their own decision about whether to impose death. Patent prosecution and counseling for Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Represent Wake Forest University Health Sciences in preparing and prosecuting numerous U.S. and international patent applications, including applications relating to cancer diagnostics and/or treatment, the treatment of neuronal dysfunction. For example, patents have been granted for methods to prevent neurodegeneration, to detect elevated MAP-2 in melanoma, and the use of angiotensin antagonists to treat cancer. Also, the firm assisted with patent license counseling and negotiation, inventorship disputes, and inter-university agreement negotiations. Patent litigation for a consumer products and manufacturing company, Represented a consumer products and manufacturing company in litigation against a competitor for sporting equipment believed to infringe our client's patent. Patent counseling services for leading tobacco manufacturer, Provide patent prosecution and counseling services to a leading tobacco manufacturer. Assisted in obtaining patents for genetically selected tobaccos having increased amino acid content. Patent prosecution and counseling for Georgia Health Sciences, Represent Georgia Health Sciences in preparing and prosecuting numerous U.S. and international patent applications, including applications relating to screening assays for proteins involved in disease, as well as large and small molecule therapeutics used as anti-viral agents and therapeutics for cancer and other diseases. Patent prosecution and counseling for University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Represent University of North Carolina in preparing and prosecuting numerous U.S. and international patent applications, including applications relating to nucleic acid arrays for monitoring ecosystems, the assessment of compounds as potential insecticides based on effects relating to ecdysteroid gene expression, and assessing intellectual property relating to clinical services. Acquisition and licensing for large clinical laboratory network, The firm assists one of the world's largest clinical laboratory network's in pre-acquisition and pre-licensing due diligence relating to technology assets, including genetic markers, laboratory technologies and methodologies, microfluidics and related intellectual property. The firm also assists in the preparation and review of acquisition and licensing documents resulting from the due diligence. Patent litigation for DuPont, Represented DuPont in multiple patent infringement cases in the United States District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina involving flexographic printing solvent patents.
NUPRO Technologies, Inc v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., No. 1:06-cv-1061 (M.D.N.C. filed Nov. 9, 2006).
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. v. NUPRO Technologies, Inc., No. 1:08-cv-00199 (M.D.N.C. filed Mar. 25, 2006). *Experience gained by attorney prior to joining Kilpatrick Townsend Publications 10 December 2009, Intellectual Property Innovations Class: The Changing Landscape of Life Sciences Patents - A Look at Recent Federal Circuit and Other Cases that Impact Your Patents, Podcasts 07 April 2009, In re Kubin - Another Hurdle for DNA Sequence Patents, Legal Alerts 01 January 2009, Patent Law Basics: An Overview of Patent Law and Avoiding the Loss of Rights
Source: Intellectual Property Desk Reference, Other Publications 01 June 2007, The Impact of the 2005 and 2006 Patent Reform Legislation on Injunctive Relief
Source: Intellectual Property Litigation, Articles 01 March 2007, Post-Issuance Patent Modification of U.S. Patents - Reexamination or Reissue?
Source: IP Links, Articles 01 January 2006, Patent Law Basics: An Overview of Patent Law and Avoiding the Loss of Rights
Source: Intellectual Property Desk Reference, Other Publications 01 January 1998, DD/AP-PCR: Differential Display and Arbitrarily Primed PCR of Oligo(dT) cDNA
Source: Biotechniques Books, Articles 01 September 1995, Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase: genetic and physical mapping to human chromosome 9q22.3 and evaluation in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Source: Genomics, Articles 10 February 1995, A microtiter plate assay using cascade amplification for detection of nonisotopically labeled DNA
Source: Analytical Biochemistry, Articles News 27 December 2011, Kilpatrick Townsend's Betsy Lanzen and Cindy Rothschild Receive Prestigious Women Extraordinaire Award, News Releases 06 July 2010, Kilpatrick Stockton's Cynthia Rothschild Appointed Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, News Releases 10 May 2010, Kilpatrick Stockton Attorneys Honored for Pro Bono Work by Legal Aid of North Carolina, News Releases 20 May 2009, Kilpatrick Stockton's Cynthia Rothschild Appointed Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, News Releases |