Emilie Porter Huck
Emilie Huck assists the firm in patent prosecution in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and polymer and materials chemistry.
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Assisted in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the fields of small molecule pharmaceuticals, natural and unnatural peptides, polymorphs, and synthetic processes
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Assisted large pharmaceutical company with IP due diligence analysis of target technology
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Interacted with research scientists and in-house counsel in determining inventorship and developing patent filing strategy
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Provided assistance regarding technical aspects of litigation matters relating to vaccines and anticoagulants
Emilie was previously a patent agent at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston. Prior to that, she was employed as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. Her work included the design and synthesis of small molecule inhibitors of a number of different biological targets, including G-protein coupled receptors, HCV protease, and kinases. Emilie is an inventor on U.S. Patent Nos. 7,528,262, 7,855,224, 7,897,634, and 7,981,896 stemming from that work.
Emilie received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, where her research focused on the synthesis and biological applications of unnatural peptides having discrete secondary structures. She completed an internship at Affymax while in graduate school, where her research included the parallel synthesis of small molecules.
American Chemical Society
Boston Patent Law Association
NIH Biotechnology Training Grant Pre-doctoral Fellowship
As a result of her research on antimicrobial beta-peptides, Emilie won the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition and published a first author paper in Nature. She is also an inventor on U.S. Patent No. 6,683,154 relating to this work.
Millikin University, B.S., Chemistry, magna cum laude
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2015 Candidate
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
