CORRECTING AND REPLACING Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis Announces Opening of San Diego Office; Office Becomes Only Biotech Practice of an IP Law Firm in Area.Business Editors/Legal Writers CORRECTION...by Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P. SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2004 In BW5531 issued Jan. 14, 2004: Please replace the release with the following corrected version. The corrected release reads: BURNS, DOANE, SWECKER & MATHIS ANNOUNCES OPENING OF SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. OFFICE; OFFICE BECOMES ONLY BIOTECH bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. PRACTICE OF AN IP LAW FIRM IN AREA Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, which ranks among Intellectual Property Today's top four patent firms in the nation, announced the opening of its San Diego office, which will be the only intellectual property legal practice specializing in biotechnology in the city, that is not part of a general practice firm. Burns Doane's new office is located at 402 West Broadway in Emerald Plaza, suite 400, in San Diego. The firm has hired Laurie Axford, a seasoned biotechnology patent attorney and former scientist, who joins from the former Pennie & Edmonds. "San Diego has a thriving biotech market, but a number of great biotech law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
Huntington added, "Our existing clients and friends in the industry are supporting our commitment to the new office and will drive our development. We've already received dozens upon dozens of qualified resumes, even before we had our name on the door." Axford, who has her M.S. in molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller and worked as a biotech researcher for more than five years, is also on the adjunct faculty at Thomas Jefferson School of Law The Thomas Jefferson School of Law, commonly referred to as TJSL, is a law school in San Diego, California. TJSL offers Juris Doctor degrees. Environment and location Thomas Jefferson School of Law is located in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego, CA. , where she teaches legal writing. Axford's commitment to the community is supported by Burns Doane, where many of the firm's members teach and those hours qualify to meet attorney requirements. "As an attorney who has advised biotech companies in the area for more than three decades, it will be tremendous to offer my clients the resources of a firm that is both committed to a local presence and literally across the street from the Patent Office in Virginia. It's the perfect bridge for San Diego companies looking to protect their most valuable resource--their intellectual property," said Axford. Axford specializes in helping start-up biotech companies to establish their initial patent protection. As they expand, she helps them with strategic patent portfolio management and assists them in negotiating deals to obtain venture capital and with other pharmaceutical companies. She is a former director of the San Diego Nucleic Acid nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and replication of hereditary information and in the expression of this information through protein synthesis. Conference and is the former president of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association. San Diego becomes Burns Doane's fourth office. Current locations include Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) south of downtown Washington, DC. ; Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. ; and Durham, North Carolina Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham CountyGR6 and is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. . Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P., is one of the oldest and largest law firms in the U.S. specializing exclusively in intellectual property. Many of their 85 attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists also hold masters or doctorate degrees and many have industry experience or are former examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The firm was recently named one of IP Law & Business' "Global Guardians The Global Guardians are a team of fictional DC Comics superheroes which hail from countries around the world. The concept originated in the Super Friends Saturday morning cartoon, in which several heroes (Black Vulcan, Samurai, Apache Chief and El Dorado) were added to " for its representation of Chevron Texaco Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. Visit the firm at www.burnsdoane.com. |
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