Lori Johnson focuses on client counseling where she assists clients with the value management of their portfolios. She helps companies understand the legal and commercial significance of their intellectual property and assists in aligning their IP portfolios to meet their business objectives. She has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of patentability and portfolio establishment, landscape analysis, due diligence, including acquisition, freedom to operate, new product launch, and pre-litigation analysis in the chemical area. She has significant experience in all phases of utility and design patent preparation and prosecution, infringement, validity and patentability opinion preparation , reissue and reexamination practice, post Grant proceeding including IPR and PGR before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and licensing. Ms. Johnson’s technical experience is diverse and involves chemical and mechanical subject matter such as consumer products, pharmaceuticals, paper making, cosmetics, industrial chemical, beverage compositions, photochemistry, glass making and medical devices. She has worked with such companies as Georgia Pacific, Coca Cola, L’Oreal, Sanofi-Aventis, and Polymer Group Inc. Ms. Johnson routinely lectures in both the United States and Europe on all aspects of the protection and enforcement of U.S. intellectual property rights, including chemical patent practice, freedom to operate, due diligence, acquisition and landscaper analysis, and licensing. Ms. Johnson spent 6 years in Europe managing the European headquarters for her prior employer Finnegan.
