Gary M. Myles

Assistant:

Michelle Crosslin-Webb
mcrosslin@merchantgould.com
206.342.6243

Education

Gary M. Myles provides patent counseling, patent application drafting, patent prosecution and related licensing, intellectual property portfolio evaluation and dispute resolution advice to technology clients. He also formulates freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and invalidity opinions and performs intellectual property due diligence reviews. His areas of technological expertise include molecular and cell biology, biochemistry and immunology. Dr. Myles represents clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Dr. Myles has practiced as an intellectual property attorney in both law firm and biotechnology company settings.

Dr. Myles' scientific experience includes six years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he was a post-doctoral and senior research fellow in the Basic Sciences Division. While at the Hutchinson Center, Dr. Myles researched the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction through structure-function studies on the c-fms receptor tyrosine kinase and studied the effect of receptor mutants on the processes of cellular differentiation, proliferation and transformation. Dr. Myles began his career at the Hutchinson Center after completing his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, where he performed research culminating in his doctoral dissertation entitled "Structure-Function Studies on Uvra: An Escherichia coli DNA Repair Protein."

Dr. Myles is an adjunct professor at the Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches a course entitled Biotechnology and the Law, and an adjunct professor and Law and Technology Fellow at the University of Washington School of Law, where he teaches Advanced Patent Law. He is admitted to the Washington State Bar, District Court for the Western District of Washington, and United States Patent and Trademark Office.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Biochemistry, 1981

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Biophysics, 1990

University of Washington School of Law
J.D., 1999