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Mark J. Nuell, Ph.D.

Partner

Address
Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
12770 High Bluff Drive
Suite 260
San Diego, California 92130
USA

Telephone +1-858-792-8855
Facsimile +1-858-792-3785
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Bar Admissions
1997, Virginia; 2010, California; 1993, registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education
University of Michigan (B.S., cum laude, 1979); University of Illinois (Ph.D., 1986); George Mason University School of Law (J.D., 1997).

Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science; Licensing Executives Society.

Experience
Dr. Mark Nuell is a registered patent attorney and partner at BSKB and has been working in the field of intellectual property since 1991; he became an equity partner in the firm in 2003.

In the course of his career as an intellectual property attorney, Dr. Nuell has assisted clients, including start-up and small companies, in the planning of their intellectual property strategy and in the obtaining of patent rights in their inventions. Dr. Nuell has obtained claims for clients having interests in many fields of genetic engineering, including cloned nucleic acids, vectors, vaccines, gene therapy, cell lines, recombinant proteins, antibodies, and various genetic engineering methods. Dr. Nuell has also done patent work in the fields of materials science, diagnostic and therapeutic compositions and methods, separation methods, analytic methods and the like.

Dr. Nuell has also performed services in the field of prosecution of interferences on behalf of clients. Dr. Nuell also does a variety of opinion work, including patentability, validity and infringement analyses and freedom to operate opinions.

Dr. Nuell is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics, and has participated as an invited speaker at meetings of the Licensing Executive Society and the Biotechnology Industry Organization as well as providing instruction in U.S. patent practice at client law firms and the Danish Patent Office and at various universities and research institutes. Dr. Nuell also participates in the Practicing Law Institute as an occasional lecturer and as a contributor to their Patent Law Practice Center.