Helen C. Lockhart

Helen Lockhart’s practice involves strategic counseling on development and management of domestic and international intellectual property rights for a variety of clients, including universities, smaller and mid-sized companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs.

Helen has broad experience in prosecuting biotechnology patents relating to immune response modulators, drug delivery, catalytic molecules, antibodies, fluorescence based micro- and nano-analysis, cell culture, mass spectrometry, nucleic acid sequencing, polymer-based and biological-based drug delivery systems, antisense nucleic acid therapeutics, peptides, small molecule mimetics, combinatorial libraries, and drug screening assays.

• Developed patent portfolio on a platform technology for a biotechnology company resulting in a substantial out-licensing program with major pharmaceutical companies.

Helen’s doctoral research focused on the regulation of cellular growth and differentiation through signal transduction mechanisms.

American Bar Association

Boston Bar Association

Boston Patent Law Association

Healthcare Businesswomen's Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

Helen has repeatedly been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts’ “Super Lawyers” in the field of intellectual property law.

University of California at Riverside, B.S., Biochemistry

Boston University, Ph.D., Biochemistry

Suffolk University Law School, J.D.

Massachusetts

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office