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Benjamin (Ben) Ediger, PhD, focuses his practice on intellectual property transactions and patent counseling in the life sciences space, along with patent litigation and patent prosecution across a range of diverse technologies.
Prior to joining the firm, Ben served as a patent agent managing a substantive agricultural biotechnology docket that encompassed both domestic and foreign plant breeder’s rights and utility applications and domestic plant patent applications. Prior to that, Ben was an intern at the Wistar Institute’s Business Development Office, a role that saw him conduct numerous technology disclosure reviews and freedom-to-operate searches in the biomedical technology industry.
- Managed a US and foreign germplasm patent docket for major agricultural biotech company*
- Managed a US plant patent docket consisting largely of US university technologies*
*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.
- Federal Circuit Bar Association Hatch Waxman/BPCIA Sub-Committee
- The University of Texas School of Law, JD
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, PhD, Cell and Molecular Biology
- University of New Mexico, BS, Biochemistry
- Texas
- US Patent and Trademark Office
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