Atty. Peter D. Mlynek, Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA

Summary

We help to solve clients? business problems by providing legal and business advice related to intellectual property. Although not limited in industries that we serve, we specializing in working with clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology business sectors. Our services include ? Business Counseling: planning, developing and executing a patenting strategy that is consistent with the clients? business goals. ? US patents: drafting and prosecuting patent applications to clients? inventions. ? International Patents: working through non-US law firms to obtain patents in countries and areas around the globe. ? Opinions: preparing freedom to operate opinions, patent invalidity opinions, infringement opinions, and due diligence analysis associated with M&A transactions. ? Licensing of intellectual property. ? Non-Patent IP Protection: by securing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Education

Rutgers University - Camden

J.D. (2007) | Law

2002 - 2006

Honors: ? Dean's List multiple semesters ? A/A+/A- grades in Patent Law I, Patent Law II, Patent Prosecution Seminar, Drug & Device Law, Food & Drug Administration Law

Activities: President of the Rutgers Intellectual Property Law Association

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Ph.D. (1996) | Inorganic Chemistry

1987 - 1996

Activities: ? Thesis: "Synthesis, Isolation, and Characterization of Variety of High Nuclearity Nickel-Antimony, Nickel-Bismuth, and Nickel Copper Carbonyl Clusters". Such clusters may model catalytic active sites in metal catalyzed reactions. ? Major: Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry ? Minor: Analytical Chemistry. Classes in electrochemistry, spectroscopy, laser physics, chromatography. ? 5 academic papers. ? Synthesized organometallic and metal cluster compounds under anaerobic conditions via Schlenk equipment, drybox, as well as traditional organic synthetic techniques. ? Isolated and purified compounds by solvent extraction, liquid chromatography, and crystallization. ? Characterized compounds by multinuclear NMR, CV, HPLC, AA, MS, XRF, IR, and X-ray single crystal crystallography. ? Developed new synthetic routes to organic ligands that were used as starting materials.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

MBA (1993) | Finance, Investments, and Banking

1987 - 1996

Activities: ? 20 Graduate level classes in Business and related fields

University of California - Berkeley

B.S. (1987) | Chemistry

1983 - 1987

Activities: ? Course work in all chemistry disciplines, including graduate level classes. ? Four semesters of research in bio-inorganic chemistry: synthesized, isolated and characterized non-heme iron dioxygenase model compounds.

Experience

19 years of experience