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Bill Christiansen is a Partner in the Patent Counseling & Prosecution practice group and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. He joined Cooley in 2011 and is resident in the Seattle office.
Dr. Christiansen advises pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clean energy and medical device companies, as well as universities, non-profit research institutions and investors, with respect to complex intellectual property matters and market exclusivity strategies. He specializes in patent matters, with particular emphasis on worldwide patent procurement, strategic management of patent portfolios, investment due diligence, early stage company counseling, competitive patent position analysis, and intellectual property value creation. Dr. Christiansen also advises litigation teams on technical and patent specific issues.
In addition to emphasizing a cost-effective yet dynamic intellectual property portfolio approach for his clients, Dr. Christiansen provides counseling to assist clients in leveraging their patent estates as true business assets consistent with their business goals. He regularly counsels both national and international clients with regard to freedom to operate opinions, invalidity and non-infringement opinions, due diligence transactions, oppositions, and re-examination proceedings. Dr. Christiansen has extensive experience in a variety of technologies, including biology-based clean energy, small molecule therapeutics, immunology, gene therapy, stem cell therapeutics, formulations, re-formulations, drug delivery, RNAi, miRNA, antisense, gene regulation, epigenetics, diagnostics, diagnostic and therapeutic polypeptides, polynucleotides, and antibodies, vaccines, genomics, and bioinformatics.
Dr. Christiansen has published many legal and scientific articles, has extensive teaching and research experience, and has presented regularly at both legal and scientific conferences. In addition to his published works, Dr. Christiansen was listed in Best Lawyers in America in 2010 and 2011 and was a Top 40 Washington IP Super Lawyers honoree in 2008. In 2002, 2003 and 2005-2011, he was also listed as a Washington Super Lawyer.
Prior to joining Cooley, Dr. Christiansen was a Partner in the Biotechnology and Chemistry practice group at Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC. Dr. Christiansen received his B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics (with honors) from Oregon State University. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Biophysics/Molecular Biology from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied the structure/function of various coagulation factors, including human Protein C. He was named an American Heart Association Fellow for his final two years of graduate study and won the Graduate School Award in Science and the Rohm and Haas Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
Dr. Christiansen received a J.D. with honors from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the Managing Articles and Essays Editor of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal. Dr. Christiansen is admitted to the Washington State Bar and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education- University of Washington School of Law
JD, 1998 - University of Notre Dame
PHD Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, 1995 - Oregon State University
BS Biochemistry and Biophysics, 1991
Admissions
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Washington
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Licensing Executive Society
- Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association
- Washington State Patent Law Association
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