LEE C. HEIMAN

OF COUNSEL, PATENT ATTORNEY

Overview

LEE C. HEIMAN is an Of Counsel 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.