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Dr C A Schlecht

Midtown Intellectual Property, PC
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I help you build things— patent applications, expert reports, amicus briefs, opinions on patentability, freedom to operate, due diligence, and state-of-the-art. The things I help you build assist you build your business—intellectual property to keep others from using your things without your permission, and opinions to help keep you from using other people's stuff without their permission.

I provide answers, specifically to questions that need an understanding of chemistry and patent law. I have a passion and background in chemistry. I love patents, especially useful ones. Everything is an opportunity to learn, collaborate, and provide value. I do all three of these things by taking innovative ideas from the benchtop to the marketplace.

Education
University of Denver
J.D. (2016) | Law
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Honors: Avvo Scholar's Circle (http://scholarships.avvo.com/scholars-circle); John E. Moye Endowed Scholarship; Charles A. Petrie Endowed Scholarship; Zavell Family Endowed Scholarship; Charles F. Brannan National Endowed Scholarship; John Reese Evening Student Scholarship; Judge Donald P. Smith, Jr. '56 Endowed Scholarship
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Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D. (2009) | Chemistry
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Also earned an Artum Magistri (A.M.) Marcus Lecture Committee 2005
Activities: Teaching (organic lecture and lab); researching (organic synthesis, materials, self-assembly)
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Furman University
M.S. (2004) | Chemistry
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Furman University
B.S. (2003) | Biochemistry
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Honors: The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award (2003); Dean’s List (1999-2003); Dreyfus Scholarship (2003); Milliken Scholar (2003); Keeler Chemistry Scholar (2003); DaimlerChrysler Corporations Fund Scholarship (1999-2003)
Activities: Phi Eta Sigma (2001)
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Duke University
Duke in Berlin Program
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Study abroad program in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with Humboldt Universitat.
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Professional Experience
Attorney/Consultant
Midtown Intellectual Property, PC
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Patent preparation and prosecution; IP strategy and portfolio management; agreement drafting and review for related matters.
Patent Attorney
Global Patent Group, LLC
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Patent preparation and prosecution, due diligence review, and related work in the chem/biotech/pharma sector.
Co-Director
Institute for Materials, Energetics and Complexity
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Researcher, project manager, and director.
Patent Attorney
Polsinelli
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Patent preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-operate, and due diligence work in pharmaceuticals, nutrition, materials, and the chemical arts.
Patent Agent
Polsinelli
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Patent preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-operate, and due diligence work in pharmaceuticals, nutrition, materials, and the chemical arts.
Patent Agent
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
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Patent prosecution and litigation support in pharmaceuticals and the chemical arts; FDA regulatory matters
Patent Agent
Nascent Innovations, LLC
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Offered professional services in patent prep and pros and opinion work. Experience in the petrochemical, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and material science. • Contracted work with Harness, Dickey and Pierce (St. Louis), Baker McKenzie (Houston), Boulware & Valoir (Houston), Lee, Jorgensen, Pyle & Kewalramani (Houston) • Prepared applications in petrochemicals, polyurethanes, alternative fuel, electrochemical cells and laser ablation. • Prosecuted patents in pharmaceutical compound per se and formulation, chemical vapor deposition, liquid salts, silicone release films and petrochemicals. • Conducted freedom-to-operate and due-diligence assessments in nanotechnology, nutrition, transgenic animals and small molecules.
Graduate Assistant
Washington University in St. Louis
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• Developed technology for direct-write protein patterning onto surfaces for the purpose of guiding the growth of neurons. • Designed and synthesized monomers with trimethoxysilyl, carboxylic and phosphonic acid head groups for self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on glass and metal oxides. • Prepared and optimized SAMs using infrared spectroscopy. • Used microcontact printing to generate patterned SAMs on glass. • Studied protein adsorption and SAM stability by fluorescence microscopy. • Synthesized a group of photocaged acid monomers and studied their photochemical properties.
Student / Research & Teaching Assistant
Furman University
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Developed prostate cancer treatments, including synthesis of prodrug for prostate-specific antigen. Attached a tetrapeptide prosthetic group to a class of anti-cancer drug. Prepared self-assembled monolayers on gold, including a riboflavin-functionalized monomer. Studied electrochemical and fluorometric biosensor for riboflavin-binding protein using cyclic voltammetry and fluorimetry.
Summer Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Analyzed redox and pH-dependent secondary and tertiary conformational changes of cytochrome c and cytochrome c3 by difference IR spectroscopy.
SHARP Apprentice at Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA
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Examined meteorite and permafrost samples by environmental scanning electron microscopy. Developed a visual library of known extremophilic organisms for comparison to structures found in carbonaceous chondrites.
Languages
  • English: Spoken, Written
  • German: Spoken, Written
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Midtown Intellectual Property
PO Box 242
Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
Telephone: (720) 708-9802