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Dr. Deborah M.H. Freeland is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Carr & Ferrell. Dr. Freeland’s practice focuses on comprehensive strategic intellectual property counseling, as well as the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. Her intellectual property practice has covered a wide variety of science-based industries, including clean energy technologies, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, hardware, materials and optoelectronics. Prior to joining Carr & Ferrell, Dr. Freeland engaged in a broad intellectual property counseling and litigation practice with a major law firm, served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Women’s Studies at Oberlin College, as a Science Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and as a Graduate Fellow of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. Dr. Freeland earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, winning the Intellectual Property Writing Award as well as an American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellowship, and working as Research Assistant to Prof. John H. Merryman. She earned her Ph.D. from the Interdepartmental Program in Biophysics at Stanford University. Having developed an extensive background in biochemistry, including enzyme chemistry, RNA analysis, gene expression and membrane biophysics, she added expertise in physics, chemistry, and materials science, designing and synthesizing model polymers to study their fundamental phase behaviors at the molecular level. Combining techniques of laser spectroscopy and optoelectronics, mathematical modeling and computer simulation, she examined the very onset of phase separation in polymer composites. Her dissertation was supported by Fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Soroptimists International. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Biochemistry and Cognitive Science, and an Honorary Vassar Fellowship. Dr. Freeland has published over a dozen scholarly articles in the fields of copyright law, physical and biological chemistry, optoelectronics and molecular biology. She has spoken on these subjects as well as on the nature of scientific models, the social responsibilities of scientists, and bioethics at domestic and international conferences and seminars. | 