Mary Anne Schofield is a counsel in the Intellectual Property Group in Crowell & Moring's Washington DC office. As counsel, she focuses her practice on counseling not-for-profit, academic and industry clients in transactional matters, patent portfolio management, evaluation of intellectual property for clearance and right to use and patent prosecution. Mary Anne also negotiates public-private collaboration agreements between multiple parties for disease-related scientific research and public dissemination of research results. She prepares opinions on infringement, patentability and freedom to operate and as well as drafting and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications relating to, e.g., medical processes; diagnostic and therapeutic methods; diagnostic and therapeutic compositions and reagent kits; novel nucleic acid molecules and protein products, e.g., tumor rejection antigen precursors, tumor rejection antigens, growth factors and growth factor receptors; as well as, applications relating to transgenic animals and plants, synthetic immunoglobulins and their production; methods and compositions for tissue repair; mammalian cell culture, and; cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions.
Prior to practicing law, Mary Anne was a registered patent agent (1992-1996), a postdoctoral fellow at the Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA (1988-1991) where her research involved generation and analysis of mutant bacterial strains with altered rates of gene rearrangements. She earned her Ph.D. with Harold Varmus at University of California, San Francisco. Her thesis was titled, "Analysis of Mammalian Cell Transformation by Rous Sarcoma Virus Phosphokinase, pp60 v-src."
Publications
· "Appendix 2: Key Plant Biotechnology Patents," Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, ed. Paul Christou & Harry Klee, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2004). Author: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "DNA Inversions Between Short Inverted Repeats in Escherichia coli," Genetics, 132, pp. 295-302 (1992). Co-Authors: R.V. Agbunag, J.H. Miller and Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Cloning and Sequencing of Escherichia coli MutR Shows Its Identity To TopB, Encoding Topoisomerase III," Journal Bacteriology, 174, pp. 5168-5170 (1992). Co-Authors: R.V. Agbunag, M. Michaels, J.H. Miller, S.K. Whorisky and Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Isolation and Characterization of Escherichia coli mutants with Altered Rates of Deletion Formation," Genetics, 127(1), pp. 21-30 (1991). Co-Authors: J.H. Miller, S.K. Whorisky and Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Ice Nucleating Activity of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia herbicola," Journal of Bacteriology, 153(1), pp. 222-231 (1983). Co-Authors: L.M. Kozloff, M. Lute and Mary Anne Schofield.
Alerts & Newsletters
· "Single Species Does Not Provide Written Description Support For Genus," Intellectual Property Bullet Analyses (November 11, 2008). Contact: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Pending Regulatory Approval Does Not Confer Automatic Safe Harbor Exemption," Intellectual Property Bullet Analyses (March 26, 2008). Contact: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Semantic Definition Differences Not Inconsistent With Claim Construction," Intellectual Property Bullet Analyses (January 30, 2008). Contact: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Infringing Present Activity Needed For Declaratory Judgment," Intellectual Property Bullet Analyses (July 23, 2007). Contact: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Patentees' Prior Statements in Unrelated Korean Suit Invalidate Infringed US Claims," Intellectual Property Bullet Analyses (May 7, 2007). Contact: Mary Anne Schofield.
Speaking Engagements
· "Patent Cooperation Treaty Practice," International Patent Practice for Paralegals, hosted by Half Moon LLC (June 2008, 2006 and 2004). Presenter: Mary Anne Schofield.
· "A Revertant Cell Line Resistant to Transformation by pp60v-src," Annual Meeting of Oncogenes - Frederick, MA (1987). Co-Presenters: H.E. Varmus, M. Verderame and Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Molecular and Biological Characterization of Frame-shift Mutants and Back Mutants of Src," Annual RNA Tumor Virus Meeting - Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY (1985). Co-Presenters: G. Mardon, H.E. Varmus and Mary Anne Schofield.
· "Molecular and Biological Characterization of Frame-shift Mutants and Back Mutants of Src," Annual RNA Tumor Virus Meeting - Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY (1983). Co-Presenters: G. Mardon, H.E. Varmus and Mary Anne Schofield.