COLIN L. FAIRMAN, PH.D.
Partner
Patent Attorney
(612) 238-7857
cfairman@hfglobalip.com
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PROFILE
Dr. Fairman is patent attorney with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and cardiovascular physiology, practice representing universities and companies nationally and globally in identifying, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, genomics, and medical devices.
Dr. Fairman’s expertise includes strategic planning and management of large, complex patent portfolios, especially small molecule therapeutics, bio-prosthesis, polymer, organic and surface chemistry. He has extensive experience with drafting and prosecuting patents in the chemical and biological arts including small molecule therapeutics, drug delivery, protein purification, chemical synthesis, molecular biology, transgenic and recombinant organisms, optics and dental adhesives and prostheses, clinical diagnostics. Dr. Fairman’s prosecution expertise includes the USPTO and international patent applications, examiner interviews, and client consultation, patent reexamination and inter partes review. His other IP experience includes freedom to operate opinions, patentability and infringement analysis and infringement settlement negotiations, brief preparation and preparation of infringement complaints. His transactional experience includes licensing (both in and out) and contracts. Dr. Fairman’s scientific experience includes the use of advanced chemistry, biochemistry, and immuno-chemistry techniques including IFA, ELISA, EIA, HU-self-Ab, fluorescence, digoxygenin, and molecular biology techniques including: molecular cloning, PCR, gene array, Northern analysis and Western analysis, electrophysiology, and microscopic anatomy.
EDUCATION
James Madison University, B.S., Biology
University of Hawaii-Manoa, Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences-Medical Physiology
University of Wisconsin – Madison, J.D.
ADMISSIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
State Bar of Minnesota
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association