Jill K. MacAlpine Ph.D.

Associate

Jill MacAlpine practices patent procurement, due diligence investigations, opinion work, and client counseling, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical areas.

Dr. MacAlpine joined Finnegan as a student associate, gaining significant legal experience in domestic and foreign patent prosecution. Prior to joining the firm, she was employed at a small patent prosecution firm in Washington, DC.

Dr. MacAlpine has significant experience in the field of organic chemistry. She earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of British Columbia, where she studied porphyrins and porphyrin derivatives for use as pharmaceutical products in photodynamic therapy.

Professional Activities

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Chemical Society
• Virginia Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Order of the Coif

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "A Panacea for Inequitable Conduct Problems or Kingsdown Version 2.0? The Therasense Decision and a Look into to the Future of U.S. Patent Law Reform," Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Fall 2011.
• Coauthor. "Conducting Thorough and Efficient IP Due Diligence Investigations in Corporate Acquisitions," BNA International's IP & Technology Programme, March 2006.
• Coauthor. "Protecting Patents From the Beginning: The Importance of Information Disclosure Statements During Patent Prosecution," JPTOS, Aug. 2000.
• Coauthor. "Preparation of [ meso-tetraphenylchlorophinato]nickel(II) by stepwise deformylation of [ meso-tetraphenyl-2,3-diformyl-secochlorinato]nickel(II): conformational consequences of breaking the structural integrity of nickel porphyrins," Inorganica Chimica Acta 358(10):2943-2953, June 2005.
• Coauthor. A Novel Stepwise Degradation of Porphyrins. Synthesis and Structural Characterization of meso-Tetraphenylchlorophinato Nickel(II) and meso-Tetraphenylsecochlorinato Nickel(II), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121(11):2609 - 2610; 1999 (Communication).