Dr. Pai Liu is based in our Atlanta office and has experience assisting legal counsel in managing patent protection and other patent prosecution activities. She has experience in evaluating and developing IP protection strategies. Her experience spans a diverse portfolio, including vaccines, therapeutics, and research tools. Pai also brings experience in marketing IP assets and negotiating IP-related contract of various kinds. Pai Liu also works as a Licensing Associate at Georgia State University’s Office of Technology Transfer & Commercialization. Her work there includes reviewing, researching, and evaluating new discoveries for commercial value, patentability, and technical understanding. Pai earned her Doctorate… Read more
Dr. Sharon Ngwenya is a Patent Agent based in SGR’s Atlanta office. She has extensive experience identifying, evaluating, and developing IP protection strategies, and marketing and licensing intellectual property assets. With a background in scientific research, Dr. Ngwenya also has experience drafting and pursuing patent applications in the U.S. and worldwide and drafting and negotiating commercial agreements of various kinds. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Ngwenya worked for the University of Texas at Arlington, where she served as a Manager and Assistant Director, and the Houston Methodist Research Institute and the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. She also previously worked… Read more
Dr. Ram Sabnis is a Patent Agent in the Biotech & Chemical Patent Team of Intellectual Property Practice of Smith Gambrell Russell LLP. He focuses on patent drafting and patent prosecution work with an emphasis on chemical technologies. He drafts and prosecutes U.S. and international patent applications. He has extensive experience in the fields of organic, medicinal, polymer, materials, dye chemistry, small molecules, synthesis, formulations, coatings, drug delivery, RNA-based therapeutics, antisense oligonucleotides, epigenetics, new drug modalities, targeted protein degradation, fluorescent probes, macrocyclic molecules, medical devices, color filters, display materials, thin-film deposition, semiconductor materials/processes, fiberglass materials, mining, oil field, lubricants, petroleum… Read more
