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Sally Brashears
Direct Dial: (720) 377-0728
E-mail: sbrashears@hkh-law.com E-mail Notice: I UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT HENSLEY KIM & HOLZER, LLC WILL HAVE NO DUTY TO KEEP CONFIDENTIAL THE INFORMATION I AM NOW TRANSMITTING TO HENSLEY KIM & HOLZER, LLC.
Ms. Brashears' legal experience includes private practice
as well as in-house practice as IP counsel with several
start-up biotech companies in Silicon Valley. Her practice
includes over fifteen years of legal experience drafting
and prosecuting patent applications primarily in the
medical device and biotechnology arts. Additionally,
she has substantial experience and knowledge in semiconductor
and computer arts, and has personally drafted over 180
original patent applications. Ms. Brashears has extensive
experience conducting due diligence reviews, drafting
patent validity and infringement opinions, and directing
litigation proceedings. She has wide-ranging experience
drafting and negotiating license agreements, research
collaboration agreements, and joint development agreements
(with both universities and corporations), trademark
registrations, litigation and copyright registrations.
Ms. Brashears has established legal departments and
implemented IP management procedures in three life science
companies.
Ms. Brashears graduated summa cum laude from the University
of Nebraska College of Law where she served as Editor-in-Chief
of the Nebraska Law Review. Ms. Brashears received her
undergraduate degree in biology from Missouri Western
State College in 1981 and was a member of the President's
Honor Roll, and received a National Science Foundation
Grant for Research in 1980. Additionally, she did graduate
work in Molecular Biology at the University of Houston
and was a member of the Phi-Kappa-Phi Honor Society,
and worked for five years in biomedical research at
Baylor University and the University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center.
Ms. Brashears' previous positions include:
- Executive Vice President, IP and Legal Affairs
and Company Secretary for Antara BioSciences Inc., Mountain
View, CA
- Vice President, IP and Legal Affairs and Company
Secretary for Benitec, LLC, Mountain View, CA
- Director of IP, Perlegen Sciences, Inc., Mountain
View, CA
- Senior IP Attorney, Applied Materials, Santa
Clara, CA
- Director of IP, CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- Of Counsel, Patterson & Sheridan, Palo Alto,
CA
- Associate, Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Houston,
TX
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