PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Philadelphia intellectual property law firm
Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP is pleased to announce
that it has hired Dr. Kayla Metzger,
a registered patent agent with a doctoral degree in
neuroscience.
Metzger, who specializes in patent related issues in the
biotechnology arena, joins the team of intellectual property
attorneys and advisors at Panitch Schwarze in the firm's growing
life sciences practice. A patent agent registered with the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Metzger is experienced in the
preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications; and
assists in due diligence, patentability and freedom to operate
searches and analyses.
Prior to joining Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP,
Metzger worked as a patent agent at other law firms. Her
responsibilities included drafting, filing and prosecuting patent
applications for a wide variety of biological and pharmaceutical
technologies, performing due diligence and prior art searches, and
analyzing patentability.
Before joining patent practices in the legal profession, Metzger
served as Chief Scientific Officer for a start-up company focused
on the genetic basis of disease. In that role, she led the
scientific market research, grant writing, and patent portfolio
prosecution, and presented work at the 2013 Consumer Genetics
conference.
Metzger's work has been published in several leading scientific
journals, including Biological Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, and
Neuron. She lives in Havertown,
Pennsylvania. To learn more, visit the firm's website.
About Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP – Panitch
Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP is a boutique intellectual
property law firm with offices in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. The firm's IP law
practitioners provide strategic litigation, licensing and
counseling service relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights and
trade secrets, domain names and internet issues domestically and
internationally. The firm's long-standing relationships with a
network of associates worldwide enable its attorneys and advisors
to provide clients with global intellectual property advice and
protection.
SOURCE Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP