Anthony R. Prosser, Ph.D.

Anthony R. Prosser, Ph.D., is a Registered Patent Attorney with Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (KIPS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Tony focuses on complex organic chemistry patent matters including drafting and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications directed to new chemical compounds and synthetic methodology, due diligence, freedom to operate analysis, and patentability investigations. Tony’s technical areas of expertise include organic synthesis, process chemistry, medicinal chemistry, nucleoside chemistry and drug discovery and development.

Tony attended law school at Georgia State University and graduated summa cum laude. Tony received several best in class (CALI) awards including Patent Drafting and Prosecution; Law Practice Technology, Research Methods, and Criminal Law. Tony’s academic work in law school included archival research of the origin of double patenting and competing in the USPTO’s regional patent drafting competition.

Prior to joining the firm, Tony received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Emory University under Dr. Dennis S. Liotta, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry and an internationally acknowledged leader in academic drug discovery. At Emory, Tony was awarded a Woodruff Fellowship as well as a NSF Graduate Fellowship. Tony’s graduate work focused on the development of a series of molecules that inhibit CXCR4, CCR5, and HIV Reverse Transcriptase simultaneously. The series is currently being pursued as a single agent for the therapeutic treatment of HIV. Tony identified a new synthetic route to produce a known pharmaceutical intermediate in two steps that at the time required a six-step synthesis that produced less than a 10% yield. Tony’s novel synthetic path not only reduced the number of synthetic steps to two, it increased the yield by an order of magnitude. During his doctoral work, Tony made over 100 HIV entry inhibitors for structure activity analysis. Emory University filed a patent application on his graduate work to cover the synthesis and use of his new HIV agents. Tony’s doctoral research was featured in Chemical and Engineering News, Science Daily, A&U Magazine, and was awarded first place in the campus-wide Emory University 3-Minute Thesis Competition.