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Ms. DeGrandis’ practice is focused on intellectual capital management, including trade secret counseling and evaluation, patent prosecution, deal structuring, and value extraction.
Technical Expertise
Ms. DeGrandis’ focus is biotechnology and industrial processing with an emphasis on industrial biotechnology patent applications and opinion work. Ms. DeGrandis has a strong multidisciplinary background.
Bar Admissions
Minnesota, 2001
Oregon, 1998
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 43,581)
Prior Professional Experience
Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Senior Attorney, 2001-2006
Provided full intellectual property support for several Cargill businesses, including ensuring that business plans were supported by adequate training, appropriate deal structures (Joint Development, Joint Venture, wholly owned subsidiary, etc.), and intellectual property portfolios (patent, trademark, and copyright). Assisted in the development of in-house patent prosecution capabilities.
Klarquist, Sparkman, Campbell, Leigh and Whinston, Portland, OR
Associate, 1998-2001
Prosecution of plant patent, trademark, and utility patent applications with a specialty in biotechnology. Assisted in the preparation of copyright infringement opinions.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Research Assistant, 1995-1997
Designing experiments to quantify mRNA levels in new born rat tissue as part of a study of fetal alcohol syndrome.
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Research Associate, 1994-1995
Research project involved the construction of an expression vector used in the creation transgenic mice.
Presentations and Publications
Harmony in Intellectual Property Transactions Presentation at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, Toronto, Canada, July 11-14, 2006.
Degrandis, P., Hampel, A., Galasinski, S., Borneman, J., Siwkowski, A., and Altschuler, M. (1994) Alteration of Hairpin Targeting Domains Utilizing PCR. PCR Methods and Applications 4:139-144.
Yu, M., Poeschla, E., Yamada, O., DeGrandis, P., Leavitt, M.C., Heusch, M., Yee, J., Wong-Staal, F., and Hampel., A. (1995) In vitro and in vivo Characterization of a Second Functional Hairpin Ribozyme against HIV-1: Virology 206:381-386.
Aleppo, G., Moskal, S., DeGrandis, P., Kineman, R., and Frohman, L. (1996) Homologous Down Regulation of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Receptor Gene Expression. Endocrinology 138, 1058-1065.
Nogues, N., Magnan, E., DeGrandis, P., Butz, M., Kineman, R.D., Kopchick, J.J., and Frohman, L. A. (1997) Expression of a fusion gene consisting of the mouse growth hormone-releasing hormone gene promoter linked to the SV40 T-antigen gene in transgenic mice. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 137:161-168.
Hampel, A., Anderson, P., Christ, W., DeGrandis, P., Koenig, G., Runyan, C., and Galasinski, S. (1993) "The Hairpin Ribozyme". DNA Sequencing: DNA Synthesis. St. Louis, MO. Apr. 20-21, Poster presentation.
Anderson, P., DeGrandis, P., Vinayak, R. and Hampel, A. (1993) "Applications of Chemically Synthesized Ribozymes". DNA Sequencing: DNA Synthesis. St. Louis, MO. Apr. 20-21, Poster presentation.
DeGrandis, P., Hampel, A., Lord, C., and Altschuler, M. (1994) "Enhanced Nuclease Resistance in Ribozymes Incorporating a Viral 3' tRNA-like Structure". RNA Processing Meeting Madison, WI. May 24-29, Poster presentation.
Year Joined Firm
1998, returned 2006 |
