Eric E. DeMaster

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Minneapolis Office
3200 IDS Center
80 South Eighth Street
Minneapolis, MN
55402 USA

ph: 612.332.5300
fax: 612.332.9081

Eric practices intellectual property law with an emphasis on patent prosecution and client counseling. With his understanding of technology, law, and business, Eric helps clients in the biotechnological, chemical, and pharmaceutical arts meet long and short-term business objectives through conscientious analysis and counseling aimed toward building sound and profitable intellectual property portfolios. His practice encompasses intellectual property portfolio management, worldwide patent procurement, patentability analysis, product clearance, validity analysis, and infringement analysis. Eric has prepared and prosecuted patent applications related to anti-cancer therapeutics, recombinant proteins/peptides, plant expression vectors and transgenic plants, antibodies, stem cells, gene therapy vectors, vaccines, pharmaceutical compounds, pharmaceutical compounding compositions, neural growth implants, tissue scaffolds, polymeric fine fibers, synthetic growth surfaces, spectroscopy devices, and bioprocess systems and methods. Eric has broad experience in the fields of biotechnology and bioprocess engineering and has published research articles in scientific journals relating to microbiological, molecular, and neurological sciences.

Education

Gustavus Adolphus College
B.A., Biology, cum laude, 1995
Member Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society

University of Minnesota
M.S., Microbial Engineering, 1999
Biological Processing Technology Institute Research Assistantship, 1996

William Mitchell College of Law
J.D., cum laude, 2002

Bar Admissions

Minnesota State Bar, 2002
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2002
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2003

Professional Affiliations

American Intellectual Property Association
Minnesota State Bar
LifeScience Alley