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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

Baker Botts L.L.P.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112-4498
NEW YORK
United States
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Sandra Lee

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Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Partner

Practice Group Co-Chair – Patent Prosecution (Firmwide)

Career

Sandra Lee is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice in the firm’s New York office. Ms. Lee’s work is focused in the pharmaceutical, chemical, medical device and consumer products areas.

Ms. Lee has a full spectrum practice that includes a broad range of client counseling and strategic portfolio development and management. She has been involved in supporting numerous post-grant proceedings, and she counsels clients in Orange Book and Hatch-Waxman related issues. Ms. Lee has also supported litigation matters from pre-suit investigation and continuing through trial.

Ms. Lee has vast experience with due diligence investigations on proposed transactions across a broad range of technologies, and assists her clients with IP-related agreements associated with technology transfers through acquisition or licensing opportunities. Ms. Lee also conducts freedom to operate and clearance investigations, validity/infringement assessments, and investigates inventorship disputes.

Prior to her legal career, Ms. Lee spent six years in biomedical research in the Department of Anesthesia at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, investigating the interaction of opioids and benzodiazepines.

Memberships

New York State Bar

United States Patent and Trademark Office

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

American Intellectual Property Law Association, Quarterly Journal, Editorial Board Member, 2016-2018

New York Intellectual Property Law Association

Education

J.D., American University, Washington College of Law 2001

M.L.A., Biology, Harvard University 1999

B.S., Biology, University of Michigan 1993

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)

An extensive team of specialists oversee Baker Botts L.L.P.‘s collective, which is noted for its ‘dedication to staying at the forefront of the legal landscape’. Christa Brown-Sanford, high-tech specialist Samir Bhavsar and Chad Walters at the Dallas office, life sciences specialist Sandra Lee and Jennifer Tempesta in the New York hub, and Eliot Williams who co-leads from Palo Alto. Walters and Williams are both on the PTAB board, while Lee and Bhavsar have a particular focus on the patent prosecution side of the practice. The team’s workload incorporates a notable number of PTAB trial cases, patent litigation cases, post-grant proceedings before the USPTO and portfolio management matters for its client roster which includes names such as Samsung, Mastercard and Bank of America. There is a range of IP expertise across the group and it is noted that ‘the team’s diversity contributes to a richness of perspectives’. The ‘exceptional’ Matthew Avery in San Francisco is noteworthy for his ‘deep expertise in navigating the intricacies of patent prosecution’, while David Wu in Palo Alto has a particular focus on assisting research and development investment clients in complex cases.

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