Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

Intellectual Property

Managing Partner- Boston

Leslie McDonell provides strategic counseling to both startups and larger companies on the procurement and protection of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She coordinates worldwide patent portfolio strategies, evaluates and analyzes competitors' patent positions around the world, and advises and renders opinions on issues of patentability, inventorship, validity, claim scope, infringement, and freedom-to-operate. Ms. McDonell has extensive experience in conducting due diligence investigations and preparing companies to be the target of a due diligence, pre-litigation analyses, and offensive and defensive post-grant proceedings.

BIO Intellectual Property Counsels’ Committee American Intellectual Property Law Association American Bar Association (Subcommittee chair, Intellectual Property Law Committee -present) Boston Bar Association (Subcommittee chair, Intellectual Property Section -present) Boston Patent Law Association (Co-chair, Amicus Committee -present) Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

University of San Diego School of Law J.D., 1988 Eastern Virginia Medical School Biomedical Sciences Program, 1983-1984 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University B.S., Microbiology, 1981