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Connie is co-chair of the chemical and life sciences practice group at Lee & Hayes. Connie offers a wide variety of expertise in many biotech and life sciences areas, including pharmaceuticals, immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, biochemistry, small molecules, combinatorial chemistry, bioinformatics, genomics, diagnostic assays and drug delivery systems.

She has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the US and foreign countries, evaluating and managing worldwide patent portfolios, performing all aspects of due diligence analysis, freedom-to-operate analysis, opinion preparation, and patent interferences.

Connie provides counsel on issues worldwide in IP transactions, drafts and negotiates IP license agreements for the use and transfer of patents and other IP rights, and conducts IP due diligence for alliances and financings.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Connie was an academic research scientist, having received her Ph.D. from the Department of Immunology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she studied the role of T-helper cells in the pathogenesis of an autoimmune disease called scleroderma. As a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Immunology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, she characterized the impact of clonal T cells during cancer development.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• “Careers in Intellectual Property Law”, New York University School of Medicine Post-doctoral Association (2009)
• “Highlights from the ACI Pharma/Biotech IP Due Diligence Conference”, In-house seminar (2009)
• “Patent Interference Strategies: Getting Ready, Provoking and Conducting”, In-house seminar (2008)

Connie Wong 206.876.6023
conniew@leehayes.com

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