Terry L. Wright

Terry L. Wright

Associate

Louisville, KY

Phone: 502-779-5829 Fax: 502-779-9819

Email: twright@stites.com

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Education

  • Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

    J.D., cum laude, 2007

    Journal of Law and Education, 2005-06; Highest Grade: Patent Litigation, Trademark Law, Basic Legal Skills, Constitutional Law II, Professional Responsibility; Judge Lawrence Grauman Scholarship; Brandeis Intellectual Property Association, Vice-President; Intellectual Property Internship, University of Louisville, Office of Technology Transfer

  • University of Louisville

    M.S. 2003

    Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

    2000-02

    Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics

    National Institutes of Health Scientist Training Grant; Graduate Student Research Assistantship

  • University of Louisville

    B.S. 2000

    Biology

Admissions

  • Kentucky

  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Service Areas

  • Patent Prosecution and Protection
  • Intellectual Property & Technology
  • Biotechnology / Life Sciences
  • Health Care - Life Sciences Technology and Commercialization

Industry Experience

  • Biotechnology and Life Sciences

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Kentucky Bar Association
  • Louisville Bar Association
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Terry Wright is one of 16 Registered Patent Attorneys with the firm and a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group. His practice focuses on patent-related aspects of intellectual property, including patent drafting, patent prosecution and counseling clients on infringement, validity and patentability.

Contributing to his practice is a background in life sciences and experience with academic research in the areas of cardiovascular biology, molecular and cellular biology, pharmacology, and biotechnology. Currently he counsels companies and Technology Transfer and Licensing Offices of various universities regarding strategies for protecting patent-based intellectual property.

Recent Assignments

  • Counseled companies and Technology Transfer and Licensing Offices of various Universities regarding strategies for protecting patent-based intellectual property

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

  • "Innovation and the Patentability of Natural Phenomena," Second Annual Conference in Innovation and Communications Law, Louisville, Ky., August 2009
  • Co-moderator, "The Developing Landscape of Biotechnology Patent Law," The Association of University Technology Managers Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, February 2009
  • "Judicial Patent Reform: Implications for Biotechnology," Tennessee Biotechnology Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, October 2008
  • Patent Law 101 for the Health Care Industry," Louisville Bar Association, May 2008
  • Brown M, McGuinness M, Wright T, Ren X, Wang Y, Boivin GP, Hahn H, Feldman AM, Jones WK, "Cardiac-specific blockade of NF-kB in cardiac pathophysiology: differences between acute and chronic stimuli in vivo," Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 289(1):H466-76 (2005)
  • "The Role of NF-kB in Myocardial Ischemia Reperfusion Injury," Keystone Symposia, Keystone, Colo., March 2002
  • "Ablation of Myocardial NF-kB signaling in a Mourse Model of TNF-a overexpression," Keystone Symposia, Keystone, Colo., March 2002

Before Stites & Harbison

Before joining Stites & Harbison, Terry worked as a scientific research associate in laboratories at both the University of Cincinnati and the University of Louisville.