Elizabeth Barnhard Joins Leason Ellis and Bosters the Firm’s Biotech Practice

We are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Barnhard to our firm. Elizabeth is a senior patent attorney specializing in pharmaceutical and biotechnology matters. During her fifteen-year career at Wyeth/Pfizer, she led multi-disciplinary patent teams servicing several therapeutic and research areas. Among other things, she developed, implemented and oversaw comprehensive global patent portfolios covering all aspects of potential product candidates including biologics, immunoconjugates, and small molecules. Elizabeth also managed complex licensed-in patent portfolios for several major research and development alliances in oncology, neurosciences and infectious diseases, performed transactional and licensing work, and conducted patentability, freedom-to-operate, product and manufacturing patent clearances.