Nusrat Khaleeli
Nusrat is a patent attorney specializing in patent prosecution and due diligence matters. With over ten years of real-life, in-the-trenches R&D and legal experience, she understands the importance of the day to day issues that inventors and technology companies contend with in protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. Nusrat previously was an Associate in the life sciences patent practice group at Perkins Coie and King & Spalding, LLP where she worked with technology leaders including AVI Biopharma, Alza Corporation and Stanford University to name a few.
Nusrat is a graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law where she served as a Technical Editor for the Computer and High Technology Law Journal and received a High Tech Law Certificate. She also won the Witkin Academic Excellence Award in Technology Licensing.
Prior to her patent attorney career, Nusrat was an R&D scientist in the biotechnology industry where managed a team who used cutting edge molecular evolution technology to select superenzymes and collaborated with Pfizer to identify new antibiotics.
Nusrat graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Biochemistry. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University. Her graduate research finally revealed the identity of a metabolite that had been under investigation for a quarter century and which led to improved production of clavulanic acid, a component of GlaxoSmithKline’s blockbuster drug Augmentin®.
Like you, technology expert and patent attorney Nusrat Khaleeli has heard patent basics explained in numerous ways over the years. Some seminars are about the nuts and bolts of applying for patents and getting them issued and others are about patent statutes, patent cases or even patent reform. This one is different. In this presentation, Nusrat has asked you what you want to know about patents and has answered your real-life questions.
