Professionals

Pamela L. Cox concentrates on licensing and other transactions related to intellectual property for a wide range of clients from start-up organizations to non-profit institutions to international companies.  Ms. Cox works closely with her clients, taking ownership of their problems and remaining passionately engaged until successful resolution.  She is talented at unraveling complex problems, proactive counseling and devising creative solutions.  An example of the issues Ms. Cox typically handles are as follows:

• Developing licensing strategies and structuring collaborative relationships and harmonizing business goals and agreement language
• Leading negotiations and persuading others with sensitivity to relationship dynamics and the internal/external politics of the parties
• Drafting licenses, confidentiality, joint venture, material transfers, research, clinical trial and testing, manufacturing, distribution and supply, consulting, open-source, assignments and other intellectual property agreements
• Performing thorough due diligence of transferred assets in connection with licensing, assignment or the sale or merger of a business
• Dispute resolution through settlement agreements effectively balancing competing interests
• Counseling on employee agreements, invention disclosures and policy considerations related to intellectual property and government funding
• Managing out-licensing portfolios, including marketing and licensing activities

Before attending law school, Ms. Cox served as the associate director of technology transfer at Indiana University where one of her responsibilities was managing the university’s eight campus patent portfolios.  She understands university technology transfer first-hand, the importance of licensing for development and commercialization for the public benefit, and the statutes and regulations implicated in such activity.

Prior to IU, Ms. Cox worked in regulatory affairs at DePuy Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company.  In addition to her responsibilities as a microbiology analyst, she drafted the standard operating procedures that supported ISO certification.  Her exposure to the medical device regulatory approval process and sterilization guidelines is an asset in counseling clients in the medical device industry.

Ms. Cox received her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame School of Law and holds a B.S. in Biology from Indiana University.  She is a Certified Licensing Professional^TM (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. Cox is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has expertise in biotechnology opinion work and client counseling.  She draws on this expertise, as well as her litigation experience, to provide practical agreement solutions.

Ms. Cox is committed to her profession. She is a frequent speaker on licensing and intellectual property matters (representative examples below):

• “Legal Issues Affecting Deals in the Life Sciences” – LESi Annual Meeting, May 4-7, 2008
• “Analyze This Contract!” – AUTM Annual Meeting, February 28- March 1, 2008
• “Non-Profit Issues Affecting Agreements (Bayh-Dole and other regulations)”, CLE Seminar, October 9, 2007
• “The Negotiation of Material Transfer Agreements” – AUTM MTA CLE Seminar, October 4-5, 2007
• “Experimental Use Rights and Licensing,” 2007 LESi Annual Meeting, June 17-20, 2007
• “Really Crummy Deals:  Language Surprises to Avoid” - American Chemical Society’s 233rd National Meeting & Exposition, March 25-29, 2007
• “Conflicts of Interest” - 2007 AUTM Annual Meeting, March 8, 2007

Ms. Cox is also an active participant in professional organizations.  She was the 2007 Chair of the Licensing Executives Society, Chicago Chapter.  She is a member/editor of the Technology Transfer Manual Task Force for the Association of University Technology Managers.  She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (former subcommittee chair of licensing), Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, American Chemical Society, American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Illinois Bar Association, the University Club and the American Bar Association.