Biography
Focused on delivering commercial value, Linda advises companies and non-profit organizations of different sizes on intellectual property matters for innovations in a variety of life sciences fields.
Leveraging more than a decade of multifaceted scientific research experience, Linda designs and implements global patent estates and prepares competitive landscape, non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate analyses. She also assists investors in the due diligence of patent assets in the context of financings, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. She is experienced in preparing and negotiating technology licensing confidentiality, collaborative research, and material transfer agreements.
Linda holds a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry and a M.Sc. degree in biotechnology. During her interdisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral training, she directly contributed to multiple drug and research tool inventions while also gaining extensive experience in a variety of life science fields, including biotechnology, molecular biology, immunology, oncology, genetics as well as research and diagnostic tools.
Linda enjoys working with inventors to turn scientific innovations into valuable patent assets. Clients turn to Linda to help secure intellectual property rights for a wide range of life science inventions, including antibody and protein therapies, nucleic acid therapeutics, cell therapies, immune-oncology therapeutics, vaccines, organ replacements, research tools and diagnostics.
Linda’s practice is supported by Fox Rothschild attorneys who are skilled with public offerings, corporate law and regulatory needs.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining Fox, Linda was an Intellectual Property Manager at an international cancer research institute. Before that, she conducted postdoctoral research in cancer immunology, nanotechnology, and biophysics at Northwestern University and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of Michigan. Her doctoral thesis focused on molecular genetics and biochemistry.
Linda is a named inventor on three U.S. patents.
Beyond Fox Rothschild
While attending Fordham Law School as an evening student, Linda published an article on regulation of bioprinted organs in Fordham Law Review. She also earned numerous honors, including the Senior Prize for the Evening Division (2023), the Thomas F. Reddy, Jr. Prize (2023), the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award (2023), the Fordham Law School Prize (2022), and the Evening Student of the Year (2021). She won second place in the 2022 American Journal of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition.
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Education
- Fordham University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2023)
- University of Münster (Ph.D., summa cum laude, 2010)
- Physical Chemistry
- University of Münster (M.S., with distinction, 2006)
- Biotechnology
Languages
- German

