Heather N Schafer
heather {at} schaferiplaw.com
Heather is an Intellectual Property Attorney experienced in protecting, enforcing and licensing intellectual property rights. She is legal counsel for long-established businesses as well as startups and has worked with a variety of technologies including biotechnology, software, computer hardware and networking, consumer goods, chemical compositions, manufacturing, bio-fuels, athletic equipment, and cosmetics.
Heather has extensive licensing experience including drafting and negotiating patent, trademark, copyright, and know-how licenses, engineering and software development agreements, sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements, and publishing agreements. She also advises on government contract issues including NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD and ARRA funding agreements.
Prior to attending law school, Heather performed molecular biology research at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of Iowa (Departments of Otolaryngology and Biology), and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center (Tissue Typing). Heather helps companies create and implement strategic IP protection plans and licensing regimes.
ADMITTED
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | | Illinois | Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois State Bar Illinois State Courts U.S. District Court, Northern District Illinois | Texas | Texas State Bar
CONTRIBUTIONS & RECOGNITIONS
Super Lawyers Magazine | a Thomson Ruters publication Named an Illinois “Rising Star” in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 the Neuro Bureau Co-Founder | 2010-2013 portoluz Board of Directors | 2009-2013
EDUCATION
2005 | Juris Doctor | magna cum laude Georgia State University College of Law Heather served on the Law Review, winning writing and editing awards. She also served as an officer in the Association of Women Law Students, Intellectual Property Law Society, and American Constitution Society. 2002 | Master of Science in Biology Georgia State University | Molecular Biology and Chemistry 1997 | Bachelor of Science in Biology University of Iowa | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
EXPERIENCE
Schafer IP Law
IP Attorney | 2010-present Bloomberg BNA Contributor Patent Litigation Strategies: Third Edition, Chapter 28 – Patent Defenses | 2010 Second Edition, Chapter 25 – Patent Defenses, Supplement | 2006-2009 Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione
Associate | 2005-2010 Law Clerk | 2004-2005 Summer Associate | 2004 Emory University Research Specialist Hematology/Oncology | 1999-2002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellow Respiratory Diseases | 1998-1999