Who are the 'rethink'rs'?
J. Matthew Buchanan
J.
Matthew Buchanan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from
The Ohio State University and a Master of Science degree in
Microbiology and Immunology from the Medical College of Ohio. Mr.
Buchanan earned his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University
of Toledo where he served as a Note and Comment Editor on the
University of Toledo Law Review and became a member of the Order of the
Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.
Prior
to practicing law, Mr. Buchanan worked in various capacities in the
medical device industry, gaining experience with the scientific and
legal aspects of the regulatory approval processes in the United States
and around the world. He has worked in the medical device practice
group of a large Washington, D.C. law firm, focusing on FDA regulatory
law, and in a large Chicago intellectual property firm where he focused
exclusively on patent law. Mr. Buchanan is admitted to practice in
Michigan, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and before the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a member of
the State Bar of Michigan, the Wood County Bar Association, the Toledo
Patent Law Association, the Licensing Executives Society, and the
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
Mr.
Buchanan has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on
various topics, including immunology research and medical device
regulatory and patent law. Currently, Mr. Buchanan writes for American
Lawyer Media's law.com as a special contributor on intellectual
property and technology law issues.
Stephen M. Nipper
Stephen M. Nipper is a registered patent attorney working in Boise, Idaho patent firm Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP
(http://www.dykaslaw.com).
Mr. Nipper's practice focuses on patent and trademark work for independent inventors and small business, with a background in agriculture, biological and chemical sciences, and the mechanical arts.
He is an Idaho native, receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri and his Juris Doctor degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law at Carbondale.
Douglas J. Sorocco
My
law practice focuses on the areas of intellectual property
counseling and transactions, technology licensing, life sciences and
patent acquisition and commercialization. I am registered to practice
before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Although I work in many different technological fields,
I concentrate primarily in the biotechnology and life
sciences sectors, including molecular biology, cell biology,
glycobiology, biochemistry, developmental biology, immunology,
microbiology, virology, and genetics; pharmaceutical compositions;
molecular diagnostics and techniques; medical devices and equipment.
My
passion: providing strategic and tactical intellectual property
counsel to individual clients, universities, large pharmaceutical and
manufacturing companies, as well as start-up biotechnology companies.
In addition to practicing law, I am an adjunct faculty member at the Oklahoma City University School of Law and in the Physiology Department at Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center.
Admitted to the Bar:
State of Oklahoma 1997
State of Illinois 1996
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998
Education:
University of Dayton School of Law, J.D. 1996
Northwestern University School of Law – Visiting Student 1995-96
Butler University, B.S. 1993 Chemistry
Organizations:
Mr.
Sorocco is the editor and an author of DCR's award winning and
innovative intellectual property legal weblog ("weblawg" or "blawg")
and resource center, PHOSITA.
Mr. Sorocco is also currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Spina Bifida Association of America and is the Oklahoma Chairman of the Licensing Executives Society
Activities / Interests:
B&W Photography
Woodworking and cabinet making.
Restoration and renovation of 1920s homes.
J. Matthew Buchanan 
Stephen M. Nipper 
Douglas Sorocco 
