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Ms. Aiello is an experienced patent attorney with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry including beauty and personal care products and compositions (bars, liquids, sanitizers, shampoos, conditioners, etc.). She is skilled in Patent Prosecution, Freedom to Operate (FTO), Patent Portfolio Analysis, Patent Law, Technology Transfer, NDA/CDAs, and other aspects of Intellectual Property.

Mr. Irving has more than 47 years of experience in the field of IP law. His practice includes due diligence, patent prosecution, reissue and reexamination, patent interferences, and counseling, including prelitigation, Orange Book listings of patents covering FDA-approved drugs, and infringement and validity analysis in the chemical fields, as well as litigation. Mr. Irving has served as lead counsel in many patent interferences.

Ms. Lee’s practice focuses on strategic counseling, procurement of worldwide patent rights, due diligence, freedom to operate, and IP transactions. She routinely advises clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries regarding patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and regulatory exclusivity. Drawing from her extensive experience across all aspects of patent practice, Ms. Lee develops and executes patent procurement strategies that are aligned with clients’ immediate and long-term business goals, including product life cycle management under the Hatch-Waxman Act and the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. She leverages her strong ability to digest complex technical information with her experience in both patent procurement and litigation to provide clients with valuable transactional insights and a unique approach to negotiating IP terms in agreements. Ms. Lee’s experience spans a broad range of life science technologies including antibodies, vaccines, small molecule pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, veterinary formulations, data science, biomaterials and medical devices. She also has experience with a variety of other technologies including polymers, cosmetics, industrial chemicals, manufacturing process controls, paper, and software.

Ms. O’Brien has more than 25 years of experience representing both domestic and foreign clients of all sizes in the areas of patent procurement, litigation, and client counseling, with a particular emphasis on chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical technologies. Exemplary areas of Ms. O’Brien’s technical expertise include polymer chemistry; ceramics; glass; food chemistry; cosmetics; paper products; adhesives; and pharmaceutical products including new chemical entities and formulations, as well as novel solid forms including polymorphs, cocrystals, and amorphous forms of compounds. Ms. O’Brien’s expertise includes all aspects of preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications, such as patent drafting and prosecution, as well as more complex matters such as reissue and reexamination proceedings, appeals hearings, Post-Grant Reviews (PGR), and Inter Partes Reviews (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Her litigation expertise focuses on patent infringement cases including, for example, Hatch-Waxman litigation involving Abbreviated New Drug Applications, and includes all stages from pre-discovery through trial.