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Madeline F. Baer

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Baer, Madeline F.

Biography

Madeline’s practice is currently focused on intellectual property litigation, including patent litigation, opinions, and diligence, as well as litigation in the areas of false advertising and copyright. Madeline has represented global, midsize, and start-up companies and has a wide range of experience in all areas of patent practice, including counseling, opinions, and litigation for both branded and generic companies, due diligence for strategic licenses, acquisitions, public offerings, patent prosecution, false advertising actions in federal court and in front of the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, and copyright litigations and advice relating to software, photographs, sculpture, and architecture.

Madeline holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and carried out research for several years in the area of RNA in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Sidney Altman.  Madeline's research contributed to the work for which Dr. Altman received the Nobel Prize.


Representative Experience
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  • Outside counsel for all non-litigation patent matters for a midsize global pharmaceutical company
  • Opinions and due diligence investigations for global and midsize branded pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, investment banks, hedge funds, and advertising companies
  • Litigations involving medical devices, recombinant DNA products, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, false advertising in the cellular phone industry, and in the over-the counter medical products industry, copyright disputes involving photographs and software
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Education and Professional Background
  • Quinnipiac University School of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 1992
  • Yale University, Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, 1978
  • Byrn Mawr College, B.A. magna cum laude, Chemistry, 1966
  • Admitted to practice: New York, 1993; United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1993; U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1995
Publications and Presentations
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  • Speaker, 2011 Drug Development Boot Camp at Harvard University, November 2011
  • Co-author of scientific publications, book chapters, abstracts, and posters in the field of molecular biology; speaker at scientific as well as legal meetings, most recently the "Drug Development Boot Camp" at Cornell Medical School, September 2010
  • “Post Prosecution Inequitable Conduct,” Intellectual Property Litigation, Vol.21 No.4, 2010


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Madeline F. Baer
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Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical

Intellectual Property Counseling

Intellectual Property Litigation