Sulay D. Jhaveri Ph.D.

Associate

Sulay Jhaveri practices both patent litigation and prosecution in the chemical and biological sciences. Dr. Jhaveri's litigation experience includes Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA); trade secrets; International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337; and interference cases. He has also provided pro bono legal assistance for the Federal Public Defender's office. Dr. Jhaveri has prosecuted patents for a variety of matters ranging from cosmetics to polypeptides.

Prior to joining Finnegan, Dr. Jhaveri was National Research Council post-doctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he developed optical and electrochemical biosensors. He was also an environmental policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Effects of Ion-Pairing on Rate of Electron Transfer Between Immobilized Gold Nanoclusters and Soluble Redox Probe," Electrochemistry Communications, Dec. 2006. 
• Coauthor. "Electron Conduction Across Electrode Immobilized Neutravidin Bound with Biotin-labeled Ruthenium Pentaamine," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004.
• Coauthor. "Isolation and Characterization of Trioxyethylene-Encapsulated Gold Nanoclusters Functionalized with a Single DNA Strand," Nano Letters, 2004.
• Coauthor. "A Comparative Study of Electrochemically and Fluorometrically Addressed Molecular Reporter Groups: Effects of Protein Microenvironment," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Dec. 15, 2003.
• Coauthor. "A Reagentless Electrochemical Biosensor Based on a Protein Scaffold," Chemical Communications, Feb. 7, 2003.
• Coauthor. "Ion-Induced Discrete Charging of Immobilized Water-Soluble Gold Nanoclusters," Chemical Communications, 2002.
• Coauthor. "In Vitro Selection of Signaling Aptamers," Nature Biotechnology, 2000.