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 | Mary E. BakPartner
Howson & Howson LLP
501 Office Center Drive, Suite 210
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
19034
(Montgomery Co.)
Telephone: 215-540-9206
Fax: 215-540-5818
http://www.howsonandhowson.com/MEB.html
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| Practice Areas | Patent; Trademark; Copyright; Intellectual Property Law | | | Education | Villanova University, J.D., 1981, University of Notre Dame, B.S., Microbiology, 1978 | | | Admitted | 1981, Illinois; 1986, New York; 1987, Massachusetts; 1988, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | |
| Memberships | American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association; Licensing Executives Society. | | | Biography | Mary E. Bak has been a partner of Howson & Howson LLP since 1988. For seven years prior to joining Howson & Howson LLP, Ms. Bak was an intellectual property attorney with law firms in Chicago and New York City, and also served as an in-house patent counsel with a small biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ms. Bak's practice has been exclusively in the field of Intellectual Property transactions, with her particular areas of expertise in microbiology, biotechnology and chemistry patent prosecution and counseling in university, non-profit and for-profit settings. Ms. Bak's practice involves national and international prosecution and appellate representation of clients in such diverse fields as the discovery and pharmaceutical uses of novel and modified genes and proteins; peptide chemistries and modification; gene therapy compositions and methods; peptide and protein-based therapies for cancer and viral diseases; antibody-based therapies for cancer and viral diseases; processes and compositions for immunological and hematological cell flow cytometric analyses; industrial chemistries including polymeric coatings and metal-working formulations, among many others. Ms. Bak has also represented corporate clients in transactional matters such as license negotiations and agreements, confidentiality agreements, as well as legal opinions on the validity and infringement of patents and freedom-to-operate in various fields. In addition to her patent practice, Ms. Bak has counseled clients in matters involving trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition, both foreign and domestic. She has spoken on intellectual property matters at a seminar for patent examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and at seminars conducted for several non-profit organizations. Ms. Bak is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania and New York bars, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court of the United States. She has been registered before the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1984. | | | ISLN | 909302199 | |
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