Melissa M. Hayworth

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Washington DC Office
1701 Duke Street
Suite 310
Alexandria, VA 22314
USA

ph: 703.684.2500
fax: 703.684.2501

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Ms. Hayworth is a partner in Merchant & Gould's Washington D.C. office. She focuses her practice on organic and inorganic chemistry, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, polymer chemistry, petroleum chemistry and biochemistry. She also has experience in infringement and validity opinions, IP strategies for inter-party proceedings, patent preparation and prosecution, client counseling and licensing.

Melissa also has experience in patent estate due diligences and patent estate review. She is a former corporate patent attorney at Roche Bioscience and 3M Innovative Properties and a former research chemist in the area of synthetic organic chemistry at Burroughs Wellcome. She was a teaching assistant at North Carolina State University from 1992 through 1995.

North Carolina State University
B.S., summa cum laude,1994

District of Columbia
Virgina
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Association of University Technology Managers
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Chemical Society
Licensing Executives Society
Virginia Bar Association