With the most sophisticated clients developing pharmaceutical, biotech and nanotech products, including startup firms, international corporations and universities, Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D. advances and secures the value of their patents and intellectual property portfolios.  Particularly in her skillful handling of the regulatory and legal framework for pharmaceutical products, she crafts profitable patent strategies on their behalf.  Clients rely on Dr. Danek's sure know-how of their technologies and her assiduous attention to their businesses, qualities developed from her advanced study and research in chemistry and postdoctoral research in RNA interference applications.

Recent Client Work

  • Successfully prosecuted to issuance patent applications covering recently approved drug products in U.S. and foreign jurisdictions.

  • Counseled clients on European opposition proceedings for a patent covering a commercial pharmaceutical formulation.

Detailed Biography

Representative Experience

Dr. Danek has successfully handled patents and patent portfolios in a wide variety of technologies, including:

  • Pharmaceuticals and methods of use
  • Protein conjugates and methods of synthesizing
  • Combination therapies
  • Novel treatment methods
  • Novel dosing and administration methods
  • Prodrugs and metabolites of pharmaceuticals
  • Pharmaceutical formulations
  • Synthesis of organic molecules and polymers, including solid phase methodologies
  • Lithography and nanomaterials
  • Biodiagnositics
  • Molecular organic frameworks (MOFs) and molecular electronics

Background and Credentials

Dr. Danek’s work has spanned patent prosecutions, invalidity and freedom-to-operate opinions, accelerated examination, and portfolio management.  Her clients have included small or startup biotech and nanotechnology firms, large pharmaceutical corporations, and universities.  She offers exceptional proficiency in helping pharmaceutical clients develop patent strategies in view of FDA regulations and related exclusivity provisions.

Dr. Danek received her J.D. in 2008 from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Danek was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, researching structural analogs of RNA bases for use in RNA interference (RNAi) applications.  She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003.  Her doctoral research included pursuing the total synthesis of natural products and evaluating new assay techniques for identification of novel catalysts using combinatorial chemistry.

She also holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in international relations, both from American University in Washington, D.C.

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Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D.
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Chemistry
  • American University, B.A., International Relations
  • American University, B.S., Chemistry
  • Stanford University, post doctoral work

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  • Illinois
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D.

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With the most sophisticated clients developing pharmaceutical, biotech and nanotech products, including startup firms, international corporations and universities, Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D. advances and secures the value of their patents and intellectual property portfolios.  Particularly in her skillful handling of the regulatory and legal framework for pharmaceutical products, she crafts profitable patent strategies on their behalf.  Clients rely on Dr. Danek's sure know-how of their technologies and her assiduous attention to their businesses, qualities developed from her advanced study and research in chemistry and postdoctoral research in RNA interference applications.

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Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D.

Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D.

Recent Client Work

  • Successfully prosecuted to issuance patent applications covering recently approved drug products in U.S. and foreign jurisdictions.

  • Counseled clients on European opposition proceedings for a patent covering a commercial pharmaceutical formulation.

Detailed Biography

Representative Experience

Dr. Danek has successfully handled patents and patent portfolios in a wide variety of technologies, including:

  • Pharmaceuticals and methods of use
  • Protein conjugates and methods of synthesizing
  • Combination therapies
  • Novel treatment methods
  • Novel dosing and administration methods
  • Prodrugs and metabolites of pharmaceuticals
  • Pharmaceutical formulations
  • Synthesis of organic molecules and polymers, including solid phase methodologies
  • Lithography and nanomaterials
  • Biodiagnositics
  • Molecular organic frameworks (MOFs) and molecular electronics

Background and Credentials

Dr. Danek’s work has spanned patent prosecutions, invalidity and freedom-to-operate opinions, accelerated examination, and portfolio management.  Her clients have included small or startup biotech and nanotechnology firms, large pharmaceutical corporations, and universities.  She offers exceptional proficiency in helping pharmaceutical clients develop patent strategies in view of FDA regulations and related exclusivity provisions.

Dr. Danek received her J.D. in 2008 from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Danek was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, researching structural analogs of RNA bases for use in RNA interference (RNAi) applications.  She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003.  Her doctoral research included pursuing the total synthesis of natural products and evaluating new assay techniques for identification of novel catalysts using combinatorial chemistry.

She also holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in international relations, both from American University in Washington, D.C.

Short Biography

Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D.

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D.
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Chemistry
  • American University, B.A., International Relations
  • American University, B.S., Chemistry
  • Stanford University, post doctoral work

Practices

Industries

Admissions

  • Illinois
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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