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Janet E. Reed, Ph.D. is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Dr. Reed concentrates her practice on patents related to biotechnological inventions in medicine, agriculture and environmental sciences. Earlier in her legal career, she served for one year as director of intellectual property for the University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer.
Since her entry into intellectual property practice in 1990, she has represented many academic and industry clients in domestic and foreign patent prosecution, patent and trademark inter partes proceedings, patent portfolio management and strategic planning, evaluation of new technology, drafting of license and other commercialization agreements, and preparation of opinions on patentability, infringement and freedom to operate.
Dr. Reed is trained in recombinant DNA technologies, gene expression, cell biology and tissue culture, immunology, microbiology and plant pathology, as well as DNA, RNA and protein purification and analysis. She has had 10 years of laboratory experience in biochemistry, molecular biology and plant physiology/pathology, in graduate-level research and as a visiting postdoctoral research scientist at E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Her scientific work has been published in such respected journals as Biochemistry, The European Journal of Biochemistry and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In General. Dr. Reed holds a doctorate in biochemistry from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in plant pathology from the University of Nebraska. She received her law degree, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law - Camden, where she was a Campbell’s Scholar and an articles editor of the Rutgers Law Journal.
Dr. Reed is a member of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association, where she has served on the board of governors and as chair of the Chemical Practice Committee. She is a member of the American and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the Licensing Executives Society. She has been an author and speaker at seminars jointly sponsored by the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations. She also has lectured at the AUTM Basic Licensing Course and has participated as a speaker, committee member and panel moderator at AUTM annual and regional meetings for many years. | 