Janice A. Vatland

Janice Vatland specializes in strategic patent portfolio development and management in the areas of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. With over 10 years of experience, she has worked with a number of clients to tailor their patent protection based on business objectives and competitor activities. She counsels clients of all sizes, including universities, startups, and smaller and mid-sized companies.

Janice also has experience in European opposition, reissue, and reexamination proceedings; applying for Patent Term Extensions and Supplementary Protection Certificates; requesting reconsideration of Patent Term Adjustment; and biosimilar/biobetter issues. She has specific expertise in obtaining patent protection for a wide range of technologies including antibody, transgenic, and sequencing technologies; particle and biologic-based delivery systems; immune modulating therapeutics; and new medical uses and formulations of known compositions. 

Janice performed her doctoral work under the supervision of Professor William Thilly at MIT. Her doctoral work focused on long-term, low-dose cell culture experiments to determine the mutagenicity of compounds found in cigarette smoke. Her research experience extended to quantitative and statistical modeling of age-specific cancer mortality rates in the U.S.

Janice also previously worked as a Senior Specialist with ENSR, an environmental consulting firm, where she performed fate and transport analyses, and as a Civil Engineering Intern with the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

American Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Art Technology New England

BioForward 

Boston Patent Law Association

• 2010 selection committee member for the BPLA/ Museum of Science Invented Here! Competition

Women’s Bar Association

Martin Fellows Society

Janice has been named one of Massachusetts Super Lawyers’ “Rising Stars” in the field of intellectual property law.

Janice's thesis work was the subject of a number of newspaper and magazine articles, including articles in the Boston Globe and Self magazine. She is also the voice of the Wolf Greenfield phone system.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Toxicology and Epidemiology

Suffolk University Law School, J.D., cum laude

Massachusetts

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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