Xiaoguang Michelle Gao
Associate VP - Assistant General Patent Counsel , Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Dr. Gao is Assistant General Patent Counsel at Eli Lilly and Company, supporting biologics and genetic medicine assets. She obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Northwestern University, and J.D. from the University of Illinois. Prior to joining Eli Lilly, she was a Patent Attorney at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, where she supported ImmunoOncology and Neuroscience programs. She also worked for Fish & Richardson as an associate, focusing her practice on biopharma-related patent prosecution and litigation there.

Ways to Avoid Having your Patents Cellected*

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit caused frustrations when it decided to affirm the U.S. Patent Office’s findings that claims in four patents were unpatentable because they are...Read more

A Current Look at the State of Inequitable Conduct and Other Equitable Concerns

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Inequitable conduct is an “equitable defense to patent infringement that, if proved, bars enforcement of a patent. ” Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. , 649 F. 3d 1276,...Read more

Creative Claiming Strategies

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Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more