Elisabeth Healey

Dr. Healey is responsible for the university intellectual property and technology transfer as well as the administrative and scientific oversight of regulatory affairs in the Office of Research and Innovation. Dr. Healey also teaches Patent Law and Patent Drafting at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Dr. Healey is an inventor, patent holder, registered U.S. patent attorney, chemist, and published author with extensive knowledge of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and in intellectual property law. As a patent practioner for over a decade, she has counseled clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters and patent law issues. Dr. Healey has also prepared and prosecuted thousands of patent applications, managed numerous patent portfolios, provided hundreds of opinions and assessments on patent infringement, validity, freedom-to-operate, and patentability. She has also helped many intellectual property owners with due diligence issues, licensing strategies, and technology evaluation in support of product development, acquisition and launch.

Additionally, Dr. Healey's experience in the private sector at a large chemical company and pharmaceutical start-up, in the educational field, and as an inventor gave her a unique insight at the intersection of science, technology, and intellectual property, stemming from an in-depth understanding of the various aspects of the innovation processes in a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies.

Dr. Healey is fluent in French, author or co-author of 20 scientific articles in high impact factor journals and of a book chapter. She was highlighted in Science and has served as a peer reviewer for Organometallics, and ACS journal.

FALLPatent Law

SPRINGPatent Drafting