Donald L. Zuhn, Jr. Ph.D.
Donald L. Zuhn, Jr. has more than a decade of experience in all aspects of patent prosecution, litigation, counseling, and licensing. He represents a variety of clients, including biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies both large and small, and universities.
Dr. Zuhn joined MBHB in 1998. He maintained a full-time position as a law clerk while attending law school at night until his graduation in 2002.
education
J.D., The John Marshall Law School, Summa Cum Laude, Fred F. Herzog Scholarship, Dean's Scholarship, John N. Jewitt Scholarship
The John Marshall Law Review
Review of Intellectual Property Law
- Lead Articles Editor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Mammalian Genetics
Doctoral Research: Analysis of the structure and function of protein domains of human P-glycoprotein through the use of genetic suppressor elements encoding antisense RNA molecules and truncated proteins
B.S., Loyola University Chicago, Biology
bar admissions
Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
publications
Founding author and editor of the Patent Docs weblog, a site focusing on biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law.
Contributor to Patently Obvious, a patent law weblog.
"The USPTO's New Written Description Training Materials: Impact on Biotech" snippets, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Spring 2009.
"Where Does the USPTO Go after Tafas/GSK v. Dudas?" snippets, Vol. 6, Issue 2, August 2008.
Donald L. Zuhn, Jr. and Paul H. Berghoff, "The Evolution of the Written Description Requirement in the Context of Biotechnological Inventions", Midwestern Biotech Intellectual Property Law Symposium, June 2004
Kevin E. Noonan, Michael S. Greenfield, and Donald L. Zuhn, "Paradise Lost: The Uncertain Future of Research Tool Patents", Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, March 2003
"DNA Patentability: Shutting the Door to the Utility Requirement", The John Marshall Law Review, Summer 2001