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Adam L Lunceford

Patents, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Arizona, California, District of Columbia

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Biography

I am a registered patent attorney. My legal practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of biotechnology patents. I also analyze freedom to operate, invalidity/non-infringement, and patentability of technologies in the agricultural and biotechnology fields. I have counseled clients in patent matters related to medical diagnostics, nutraceuticals, biofuels, bio-pesticides/pesticides, plant growth promoters, anticancer therapeutics, and vaccines.

Practice Areas

Patents: Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution

Intellectual Property

Trademarks: Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Arizona: State Bar of Arizona

California: State Bar of California

District of Columbia: District of Columbia Bar

Languages

English: Spoken, Written
Spanish: Spoken, Written

Professional Experience

In-House Patent Counsel: Bayer CropScience LP; 2014 - 2019

Product Specialist, Diagnostics Division: Abbott Laboratories; 2000 - 2002

Education

University of California - Davis: J.D. (2011) | Law; 2011

University of California - Los Angeles: Ph.D. (2008) | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 2008

Brigham Young University: B.S. (2000) | Biochemistry; 2000

Awards

Order of the Coif: University of California, Davis, School of Law; 2011

Dissertation year fellowship from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: University of California, Los Angeles; 2007

Cell and Molecular Biology Predoctoral Training Grant: University of California, Los Angeles; 2004

Eagle Scout: Boy Scouts of America; 1991

Professional Associations

California State Bar # 279847: 2011 - Current

Publications

Articles & Publications

Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting: Jurimetrics; 2013

Bioprospecting A Hot Spring of Legal Issues: The SciTech Lawyer; 2012

Caenorhabditis elegans UCP4 protein controls complex II-mediated oxidative phosphorylation through succinate transport: Journal of Biological Chemistry; 2011

Utility Patenting of US Biotech Inventions in non-US Countries: Industrial Biotechnology; 2011

A regulated response to impaired respiration slows behavioral rates and increases lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans: PLoS Genetics; 2009

Altered Bacterial Metabolism, Not Coenzyme Q Content, is Responsible for the Life Span Extension in Caenorhabditis elegans Fed an Escherichia coli Diet Lacking Coenzyme Q: Aging Cell; 2008

Coenzyme Q10 supplementation rescues renal disease in Pdss2kd/kd mice with mutations in prenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2: American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology; 2008