Todd E. Garabedian

Partner

Todd E. Garabedian
Partner
office Hartford
phone 860-297-3716
fax860-525-9380
emailtgarabedian@wiggin.com


Biography

Dr. Todd Garabedian is a partner in the firm's Patent Practice Group.  Todd has extensive experience as an intellectual property attorney in a wide variety of disciplines related to the biological sciences, including chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, molecular biology, and materials science. His experience also extends to trademark and copyright issues.

Todd began his professional career as a research biochemist at the UCLA School of Medicine and thereafter at Washington State University where he worked in a variety of biological fields mainly centered around protein structure, function, and characterization. Before joining Wiggin and Dana, he worked as a Technology Advisor and thereafter as an associate at an intellectual property law firm in Boston advising clients in both industry and academia.

Todd is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He earned a B.S. degree in biochemistry from UCLA. He also earned an M.S. degree in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in biochemistry, both from Washington State University. He earned his J.D. from New England School of Law.

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Intellectual Property Association
  • Connecticut Bar Association
  • Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Association

Advisories

08.05.2010Business Method Patents Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny, But Without New Guidance
07.06.2010False Marking: A Trap for the Unwary

Published Works

04.15.2013Court Reviews Patentable Subject Matter in BiosciencesConnecticut Law Tribune
08.26.2005U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Clarifies its Rules on Small Entity QualificationsTerraLex Intellectual Property Newsletter, 11th Edition, April 2005
02.23.2005Managing The University Patent Portfolio And Making It Attractive To Licensees: A Commonsense ApproachResearch Management Review, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2005
10.28.2004Public PAIR and Assignments on the Web Database Systems: The Newest Tools to Monitor the Filing, Prosecution, and Ownership of United States Patent ApplicationsTerraLex Intellectual Property Newsletter, 10th Edition, October, 2004
03.06.2004Erroneous Small Entity Designation Can Jeopardize Patent RightsTerraLex Intellectual Property Newsletter, 9th Edition, April, 2004
10.16.2003Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law: Avoiding Traps in the Pursuit of University ResearchResearch Management Review, Winter/Spring 2003
04.01.2002Nontraditional Publications and Their Effect on Patentable InventionsNature Biotechnology, Volume 20, Number 4, pages 401-402 (2002)
03.01.2002Recent Changes to the US Patent Laws: Their Effect on Inventions in BiotechnologyTerraLex Intellectual Property Newsletter, 7th Edition, February/March, 2002
08.01.1997Laboratory Record KeepingReprinted with permission from Nature Biotechnology v. 15 (August 1997) pp.799-800.]

News


office Hartford
phone 860-297-3716
fax860-525-9380
emailtgarabedian@wiggin.com

PRACTICE GROUPS

EDUCATION

  • New England School of Law, J.D., 1994
  • Washington State University, M.S., Biochemistry, 1988
  • Washington State University, Ph.D., Biochemistry, 1991
  • UCLA, B.S. Biochemistry, 1985

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

COURT ADMISSIONS

  • US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • US District Court (District of Connecticut)
  • US District Court (District of Massachusetts)
  • US Supreme Court


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