Rolando Medina

Dr. Rolando Medina is a Partner with Choate Hall & Stewart. He has extensive experience in intellectual property, including patent prosecution, opinions, due diligence studies, IP counseling, and licensing in biotechnology and the medical sciences. Rolando has experience representing academic universities and start-up companies, as well as mid-sized and large biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Rolando advises clients on a broad range of patent matters, including the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, portfolio management and counseling, with particular experience in novel genes, antibodies, gene therapy, vaccines, antisense, stem cells, pharmaceutical formulations, peptide and antibody display technologies, nanotechnology, biofuels and potential treatments, and diagnostic methods for various diseases.

Rolando has led hundreds of landscape and freedom-to-operate analyses; non-infringement and invalidity opinions; IP due diligence reviews in the context of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, internal audits, and licensing. He also routinely provides advice to clients in AIA post-grant review proceedings, including inter partes review and post-grant review proceedings.

Prior to law school, Rolando was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of James M. Anderson at Yale University School of Medicine, researching occludin function in epithelial cell tight junctions. As a graduate student in the Laboratory of Catherine H. Berlot at Yale University School of Medicine, his research involved structure/function analysis of the interactions of heterotrimeric G protein subunit, Gq?, with phospholipase C.