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Duane Morris' Boston Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Lee Crews, Ph.D.
BOSTON, December 1, 2009—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Lee Crews, Ph.D., has joined the firm in its Boston office as a partner in its Intellectual Property Practice Group. Dr. Crews' arrival further strengthens Duane Morris' top-ranked patent practice and its depth of experience in the biotechnology industry. She joins the firm from Fish & Richardson, P.C.
Dr. Crews focuses her practice on patent prosecution, opinions, due diligence and counseling for clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. She also represents clients in those industries in licensing and transactional work, and has significant experience in resolving inventorship disputes. Dr. Crews' clients concentrate on antibody engineering, diagnostic agents, gene therapies, high-throughput screening assays, RNAi and microRNAs, implantable devices, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, stem cells, and transgenic plants and animals. Her clients include universities, pharmaceutical companies and start-up and mid-market biotech companies.
Previously, Dr. Crews was a postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied neurotransmitter regulation. At the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, she used cellular and molecular techniques to investigate cellular patterning and differentiation. She has co-authored articles in the Journal of Neuroscience and the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Dr. Crews earned her J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2000. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University School of Medicine in 1989 and her B.S. from University of Central Florida in 1984.
Duane Morris is recognized as one the United States' most-active law firms in terms of patent filing and protection. National publications Intellectual Property Today, IP Law & Business, IP Law Bulletin and IP Law360 have all ranked Duane Morris among the leading U.S. law firms handling patents and patent-related litigation.
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