Jamie Graham focuses her practice on intellectual property issues involving biological and chemical technologies. Ms. Graham conducts domestic and foreign biological and chemical patent prosecution, particularly in the areas of biotechnology, diagnostics, isolation and purification methodology, immunology and pharmaceuticals. She renders patentability, patent validity and freedom-to-operate opinions; performs intellectual property due diligence; and provides advice to clients regarding various aspects of intellectual property, including inventorship determinations, licensing, transactions, pre-litigation and litigation strategies. Ms. Graham has provided intellectual property advice and services to universities, large corporations, small start-up companies and government entities and has been awarded federal and state contracts for patent legal services. Ms. Graham is the Co-Chair of the firm's Health and Life Sciences team.

Ms. Graham has been a registered U.S. Patent Attorney since 1986. Prior to joining the firm, she served as in-house patent counsel for a pharmaceutical company. She has conducted enzyme isolation and characterization research at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and cardiac and allergy drug dispositon/metabolism research at Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd. Ms. Graham also performed graduate research in neuroimmunology and virology (HIV research conducted at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). She has been an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Law at Emory University.

Ms. Graham was listed in The Best Lawyers of America^® for Biotechnology and Intellectual Property in 2012 and each of the 11 years immediately preceding. She was also named a 2012 "Atlanta Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Biotechnology Law by The Best Lawyers in America^®. Ms. Graham was listed in The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers in 2011. She has been recognized as a 2009, 2010 and 2012 Georgia "Super Lawyer" in the area of Intellectual Property by SuperLawyers magazine. Ms. Graham was honored by the Georgia Chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America at its 2012 Celebration of Hope Gala. She is AV^® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

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