#137 – Lori Westin: Industry Talk

In this industry talk, we hear from Lori Westin, Partner at Wilson Sonsini, as she discusses intellectual property and patent strategies for the emerging growth company.

Westin possesses a PhD in Biology from Boston University and a JD from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She has extensive experience that includes serving as a senior research scientist in Advanced Technologies at Nanogen, Inc.; a research associate in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute; and a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CMB, at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

She is the primary author of numerous scientific and legal publications and is an inventor on seven issued U.S. patents on microchips and DNA amplification technology. Westin is a Partner at Wilson Sonsini, where she focuses on intellectual property, life sciences, litigation, patent litigation, patents and innovations, and post-grant reviews.