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Mr. Leonhardt has served as our Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel since September 2007. Mr. Leonhardt has over 24 years of corporate, intellectual property, litigation, executive management and mergers and acquisitions experience. Prior to joining us, Mr. Leonhardt served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Senomyx, Inc. from 2003 to 2007. From 2001 to 2003 Mr. Leonhardt was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Genoptix, Inc. and from 1996 to 2000 he served as Vice President and then Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Nanogen, Inc. From 1990 to 1996 Mr. Leonhardt served in various legal and management capacities at Allergan, Inc., including Assistant General Counsel, Chief Litigation Counsel and General Counsel for European Operations where he was a member of the European Management Committee. Prior to that Mr. Leonhardt was an attorney with Lyon & Lyon LLP in Los Angeles where he represented a number of prominent pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer products companies. He also serves as a Special Master through the California State Bar. Mr. Leonhardt received his B.Sc. degree in Pharmacy, magna cum laude, from the University of the Sciences and his J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law. | 