Lawrence P. Casson practices in the area of intellectual property law. Dr. Casson has experience in patent portfolio analysis, patent validity and infringement opinions, and patent drafting and prosecution, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. His experience includes interference practice and pharmaceutical litigation. He has worked on matters involving immunology; antibodies and phage display; peptidomimetics; vaccines; target identification and small molecule drug discovery and development; enzyme replacement therapy; treatment of neoplastic, metabolic, and infectious disease; prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene expression; RTKs and signal transduction; stem cell therapeutics and assays; diagnostic and forensic testing and profiling; cell biology; plant molecular biology; macromolecular crystallography; DNA chips and microarrays; natural products and neutraceuticals; nanoparticles; and polymers.
Dr. Casson is a 2000 graduate of St. John’s University School of Law. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and an S.B. in Life Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Areas of Practice
Intellectual Property
Patents
Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Education
- St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 2000
- Princeton University, Ph.D., Molecular Biology, 1996
- Princeton University, M.A., Molecular Biology, 1990
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., Life Sciences, 1983
Experience
Duane Morris LLP
- Special Counsel, 2018-presentVedder Prince
- Counsel, 2014-2018Kenyon & Kenyon
- Counsel, 2008-2014
- Associate, 2000-2007
Selected Publications
Coauthor, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Chemical Inventions, Oxford University Press, May 2011, Ed. Duncan Bucknell
Author, An Investigation into the Role of Somatic Mutation in Affinity Maturation: Modification of Antibody Affinity and Specificity by in vitro Mutagenesis, Ph.D. Thesis
Co-author, “The roles of antibody variable region hypermutation and selection in the development of the memory B-cell compartment,” Immunol. Rev. 162:183-196, 1998
Co-author, “Random mutagenesis of two CDR amino acids yields an unexpectedly high frequency of antibodies with increased affinity for both cognate antigen and autoantigen,” J. Exp. Med. 182:743-750, 1995
Co-author, “Evaluation of Loss and Change of Specificity Due to Random Mutagenesis of an Antibody VH Region,” J. Immunol. 155:5647-5654, 1995
Co-author, “In vitro synthesis of pp60v-src: myristylation in a cell-free system,” Mol. Cell. Biol. 8:4295-4301, 1988
Co-author, “A gene that controls the male modes of both sex determination and X chromosome dosage compensation in C. elegans,” Cell 55:167-183, 1988
Co-author, “Assessment of X chromosome dosage in Caenorhabditis elegans by phenotypic analysis of lin-14,” Genetics 117:657-670, 1987
Co-author, “Caenorhabditis elegans compensates for the difference in X chromosome dosage between the sexes by regulating transcript levels,” Cell 47:871-881, 1986
Co-author, “The heat shock regulatory gene, htpR, influences rates of protein degradation and expression of the lon gene in Escherichia coli,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:6647-6651, 1984
Co-author, “Anaerobiosis induces expression of ant, a new Escherichia coli locus with a role in anaerobic electron transport,” J. Bacteriol. 158:180-186, 1984
U.S. Patent No. 4,758,512 (Goldberg et al.) Hosts and methods for producing recombinant products in high yields.
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, "Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2023: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation," Practising Law Institute, September 12, 2023
- Clinician, "Clinic II: Patent Amendment Writing, PLI Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2022: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation," September 14, 2022
- Clinician, "Patent Amendment Writing," Practising Law Institute's Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2021, June 2-4, 2021
- Clinician, "Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2020: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation," Practising Law Institute Webinar, June 2-4, 2020