Timothy J. Oyer
Tim Oyer has served as President and Managing Partner of Wolf Greenfield since 2007. He also chairs the firm’s Chemical & Materials Technologies Group and Nanotechnology Group.
Tim’s practice involves worldwide intellectual property counseling, including patent prosecution, re-issues, opinions, agreements, foreign oppositions, trademarks, trade secrets, IP due diligence, and related transactions in essentially all areas of organic and inorganic chemistry, polymers and materials science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and biotechnology, and he is heavily involved in the firm’s growing clean technologies practice.
Tim counsels clients in industry and academia, from venture-backed high-tech companies building domestic and international intellectual property portfolios, to larger companies with mature product streams, in all cases aligning IP strategy with client business goals. Tim also serves venture capital firms in evaluating the IP position of companies that are the target of potential investment.
Tim is a member of many professional and civic groups and serves on a Chemistry Visiting Committee for the MIT Corporation, and on the Board of Directors of Goshen College.
Before entering graduate school at MIT, Tim was involved in epidemiology research at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also has industrial chemical research experience, and he has authored several publications in both the chemical and legal fields.
American Bar Association
American Chemical Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
Boston Bar Association
- Past co-chair, Intellectual Property Committee
Boston Patent Law Association
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
- Past chair, Nanotechnology Committee
MIT Alumni Association
MIT Corporation
- Visiting Committee for Department of Chemistry
Sigma Xi
Tim has repeatedly been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts’ “Super Lawyers” in the field of intellectual property law, and he has been named to Best Lawyers in America 2010 Edition.
Goshen College, B.A., Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry
Suffolk University Law School, J.D.
Massachusetts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
