LEE
C. HEIMAN is
a Senior Associate Attorney in the Chemical Pharmaceutical and
Biotechnology Department of
The Nath Law Group. His practice
areas include patent preparation and prosecution, providing legal
opinions, strategic positioning of intellectual assets, technology
licensing, monitoring competitive activities, intellectual property
valuation, and managing various patent portfolios.
Prior
to becoming an intellectual property specialist, Mr. Heiman
practiced law for ten years in Los Angeles, California, with
extensive business transactions and trial experience, and has also
briefed and argued numerous appeals in all state and federal
appellate courts to which he is admitted.
Mr. Heiman is a member of the
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the Licensing
Executive Society (LES), the American Intellectual Property Law
Association, the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of
California, and the Technology Council of Maryland. Since 2003, Mr.
Heiman has been a member of the Economic Evaluation Panel for the
Maryland Industrial Partnerships Grant Program administered by the
State of Maryland. He is also a former member of the Los Angeles
County Superior Court Volunteer Arbitration Panel and Volunteer
Mediation Panel.
Mr.
Heiman is the Vice President for
Affiliates and a member of the Board of Directors for AUTM. He
was the AUTM Program Chair
for the 2006 LES/AUTM Joint Spring Meeting, and is Meeting Co-Chair
for the 2007 AUTM Eastern Region annual meeting. He has been a
member of the organizing committee for the AUTM Eastern Region
annual meeting since 2001, and has been a moderator and lecturer on
topics covering The Basics of Patent Law, Introductory International
Patent Law, Advanced Topics in International Patent Law, and
Reducing Patent Costs.
Mr. Heiman was an organizer and is a
member of the George Washington University Entrepreneur’s
Roundtable, and also serves as an instructor in the 13 week Lab2IPO
lecture series sponsored by that organization. He
is a member of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and
Commercialization (CET2C) and the National Council of
Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). He is also a regular
guest lecturer at The George Washington University School of
Business and Public Management on topics including procurement of
intellectual property, international aspects of intellectual
property, and the role of intellectual property in new venture
development.
Mr.
Heiman attended the California Institute of Technology from 1976 to
1978, majoring in Chemistry, and received a B.A. degree in Political
Science from Stanford University in 1980. He received a J.D. degree
from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) in 1984. In 1997, Mr. Heiman
received a B.S. degree in Biology from The George Washington
University, with a concentration of studies in Immunology and
Molecular Biology.
Mr. Heiman is admitted to the Bar in the
State of California; United States District Courts for the Central,
Southern, and Eastern Districts of California; the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals; and is registered to practice before the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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