It has been a year since Mary Till joined Finnegan as of counsel. To reflect on her year, Mary spoke with Managing Intellectual Property and shared how she is applying her nearly 20 years of experience at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to her role and how it has shaped her practice.
Mary said she has helped many pharma and biotech clients with strategic analysis of their portfolios for the purpose of obtaining a Patent Term Extension (PTE) – an area she worked on at the agency. Patent owners can obtain a PTE to make up for time lost while awaiting regulatory review of their products. Till was involved in around 400 or 500 PTE cases while at the agency, she said.
“My knowledge and expertise in that area make it something that people seek me out for when they have questions,” Mary said. “If an application gets stuck somewhere and isn’t going along the path it’s supposed to be, I pretty much know how to fix that.”
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