Harry J. Guttman, Ph.D. joins WH&E - 09/24/2007

Dr. Harry J. Guttman has joined WH&E as an associate. He is in the firm's Chemical/Materials Sciences and Biotech Practice Groups with more than seven years of patent law experience. Harry works in patent application preparation and prosecution, ex parte and inter partes reexamination, reissue, opinion writing, due diligence, client counseling, and litigation. His representative technical areas include: cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, immunochemical test strips, microbes, optical fibers, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, semi-conductor chemical processing, polymer chemistry, biochemistry, fusion proteins, and immunology.

Previously, Harry served as a patent examiner at the USPTO in the Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry Technical Center, where he examined applications from a wide variety of subject areas. Prior to that, Harry garnered over ten years of scientific research experience that was primarily focused on applying physical chemical concepts to understanding molecular processes in biological systems.

Harry has lectured on the U.S. PTO rules package on claim examination and continuation applications and he is the recipient of the ABA/BNA award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law.

Admitted:
State of Ohio
State of Maryland
United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education:
George Washington University Law School (J.D. with honors, Jan. 2006)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D., Biophysical Chemistry, 1994)
University of Chicago (M.S., Physical Chemistry, 1989)
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (B.S., Chemistry with Mathematics minor, cum laude,
departmental honors, 1987)