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Marina I. Miller is a patent attorney in the firm’s Chemical Practice Group. Her focus is chemical and biotechnology patent prosecution.
Dr. Miller is a former patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She also was a law clerk and scientific advisor in the IP litigation department of a leading national law firm.
Her prior scientific positions include a Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Maryland, conducting structural studies of antigen recognition by TCRs and T-cell activation by various superantigens. She also has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Cornell Medical College at New York where she researched the role of myosin-binding proteins in skeletal muscle and heart.
Dr. Miller received her Law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law at Baltimore. She received a Ph.D. in Molecular biology/Biochemistry from the All Union Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms in Moscow, Russia. Her thesis research focused on discovery of a new approach for optimization of foreign gene expression in bacteria and expression and purification of different types of chemokines. She also has a M.S. degree in Physics from the Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute.
Dr. Miller is admitted to the Maryland Bar and the Bar of District of Columbia. She is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. | 