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Leslie A. McDonell

+1 617 646 1650 leslie.mcdonell@finnegan.com View profile

Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Managing Partner- Boston

Career

Leslie McDonell provides strategic counseling to both startups and larger companies on the procurement and protection of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She coordinates worldwide patent portfolio strategies, evaluates and analyzes competitors’ patent positions around the world, and advises and renders opinions on issues of patentability, inventorship, validity, claim scope, infringement, and freedom-to-operate. Ms. McDonell has extensive experience in conducting due diligence investigations and preparing companies to be the target of a due diligence, pre-litigation analyses, and offensive and defensive post-grant proceedings.

Memberships

• BIO Intellectual Property Counsels’ Committee
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association
  (Subcommittee chair, Intellectual Property Law Committee -present)
• Boston Bar Association
  (Subcommittee chair, Intellectual Property Section -present)
• Boston Patent Law Association
  (Co-chair, Amicus Committee -present)
• Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

Education

University of San Diego School of Law

J.D., 1988

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Biomedical Sciences Program, 1983-1984

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

B.S., Microbiology, 1981