Gina M. Bicknell is an associate with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun where she concentrates on intellectual property transactions for universities, small start-ups, and large corporations. Ms. Bicknell has more than a decade of intellectual property transactional experience which she leverages to help clients maximize the potential of their intellectual property assets.
Most recently, Ms. Bicknell was a Patent Agent with Baxter Healthcare Corporation. While at Baxter, Ms. Bicknell managed a large patent portfolio and drafted and negotiated numerous intellectual property-based agreements including licenses, sponsored research and development, laboratory services, feasibility, material transfer, consulting, and clinical study agreements.
In addition to her in-house corporate experience, Ms. Bicknell has international university technology transfer experience which allows her to negotiate agreements with a unique understanding of international transaction issues. Ms. Bicknell was a Licensing Coordinator at UCTech, the technology transfer office for the University of Chicago, and a Technology Transfer Executive at University College London Ventures in the United Kingdom, where she helped commercialize biotech inventions through marketing and licensing initiatives.
Ms. Bicknell received her J.D., with honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2008, where she was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and a Teaching Assistant for Legal Research and Writing. Ms. Bicknell was also a finalist in the Charles Evans Hughes Moot Court competition and was invited to join the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honor Society; she received CALI awards for Legal Research and Writing II; Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process; and IP and Antitrust (seminar).
Ms. Bicknell received her B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, with honors, from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001 and her B.A. in English Language and Literature, with honors, from the University of Chicago in 1997. She is a Certified Licensing ProfessionalTM (CLP)*, a credential issued by the Licensing Executives Society (LES) (USA and Canada), Inc. to recognize licensing professionals who are committed to professional development and the attainment of the skills and knowledge necessary to perform at the highest level of quality.
Ms. Bicknell is a member of the Technology and Education Committee for the Chicago IP Alliance (CIPA), and is also a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), and the Chicago Bar Association (CBA).
*The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and the CLP™ certification is not a requirement to practice law in Illinois.
Publications
Gina M. Bicknell, To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Duty of Candor Obligations of the United States and Foreign Patent Offices, 83 Chi.- Kent L. Rev. 425 (2008).
Contributed to: 32 The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents: Research and Development (The Rt. Hon. Lord Millett, P.C. ed., 5th ed. 2001).
