Choate, Hall & Stewart

Dr. Xiaodong Li works closely with pharmaceutical and biotech clients to devise IP strategies for technology and products at different development and commercial stages. He brings both strong intellectual property skills and impressive scientific credentials to serve clients domestically and internationally. In addition to IP strategy and prosecution, Xiaodong also assists technology and investor clients in due diligence, including monitoring and analysis of complex patent portfolios, and freedom-to-operate and invalidity analysis. He also represents clients in many IP transactions, including negotiation of agreements such as license, collaboration, research, manufacturing, supply, etc.

Xiaodong has worked with biotech companies from their foundation to IPO, providing a broad scope of IP counseling including on global patent protection, enforcement, and defense strategies, life cycle management, and various types of transactions. He has represented clients as IP counsel in financing at different stages, including IPO.

Xiaodong has extensive research experiences in both biology and chemistry. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Harvard University, where he developed new technologies for preparing small molecule libraries for drug development. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children’s Hospital, focusing on epigenetics and its functions in human diseases.

Suffolk University Law School JD, 2018

Harvard University PhD, 2007 Chemistry

Peking University BS, 2001 Chemistry