Olga A. Partington PhD, JD

Olga A. Partington, Ph.D., is a counsel in Sterne Kessler's Biotechnology & Chemical Practice Group. Olga has substantial experience in inter partes review proceedings. In addition, she has been involved in several other contested proceedings before the USPTO, such as inter partes re-examinations and interferences.

Olga also has extensive experience in drafting patentability, infringement, and validity opinions, and in working with technical experts. She also has experience in assisting clients in designing around patents and has been involved in pharmaceutical patent litigations brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act. Her practice also includes domestic and foreign patent prosecution, particularly chemical patents. She also has experience in counselling clients on patentability strategies.

Olga gained extensive technical experience in the areas of nucleic acid chemistry, organic, bioinorganic, and biological chemistry, enzymology, and spectroscopy in the laboratories of Dr Sheila David and Nobel Prize laureate Dr Paul Modrich. She earned her J.D. from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, her PhD and her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Utah.