With more than 20 years of experience, he has filed more than 450 U.S. patent applications as attorney of record. His practice supports dozens of research universities and academic medical centers across the country and abroad.
Within the life sciences, Brian has built his practice around range rather than a single technology. His experience includes immunotherapy and cell therapy, antibody engineering, viral vectors and gene therapy, vaccine platforms, small-molecule therapeutics, and diagnostics.
His client base reflects the same range: he has worked with approximately 40 universities and university-affiliated institutions over the course of his practice. Comfort across a wide variety of life-science technologies and client relationships, in his view, matters more than depth in any single one.
Many of Brian’s clients are technology transfer offices, and he approaches inventor meetings the way a postdoc would join a new lab. He asks questions and learns the science quickly enough to build shared footing with a principal investigator. That same instinct carries into his due diligence work, where he has sat on both sides of the table. He knows what companies look for when evaluating university technology, and what universities need to hear from a licensee or investor.
Before attending law school, Brian worked as a patent agent, following a decade in academic research labs covering immunology, virology, endocrinology, and developmental biology. He traces his own interest in the field to a graduate-school career workshop, where a patent attorney’s account of the work first got him thinking about intellectual property as a path. He has spent much of his career since encouraging scientists in graduate programs to consider the same route.
