Doug maintains a dynamic intellectual property practice that focuses on executing global portfolio strategies to protect high-value assets.
Doug focuses on patent portfolio development as well as opinions, transactions, and adversarial proceedings. His clients include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nutraceutical, cannabis, chemical, petrochemical, medical device, high-tech, and software companies.
Before joining Holland & Hart, Doug served as in-house counsel and intellectual property lead for a technology company, where he managed worldwide patent, trademark, and trade secret portfolio strategies. He notably directed successful high-stakes commercial litigation and an effective European trademark opposition for the company.
Doug previously worked for other leading law firms, where he managed the day-to-day prosecution of global patent portfolios, advised clients on licensing agreements, and developed strategies for adversarial patent proceedings including a European patent opposition that successfully defended a pharmaceutical patent.
While at Boston University School of Law, Doug served as a judicial intern to United States Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler at the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Doug obtained his Ph.D. in a hematology/oncology lab, where he wrote software to predict membrane protein structure based on bioinformatics data and then cloned and expressed proteins both to solve a 4D NMR structure and to assess signaling and structural dynamics in tissue culture. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in a cardiology lab, where he performed animal research including transcriptome analysis and analysis of the effects of small molecules on beating cardiomyocytes differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells. Doug served on the Institutional Review Board at Mass General Brigham, which approves human research conducted by Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and leading pharmaceutical companies.
Doug is an author on six peer-reviewed original research articles including two publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and he is an inventor on six granted United States patents.