Gubler, John G.

Jonathan Roses is an associate in the Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 2010.

Practice

Mr. Roses’ practice focuses on patent prosecution and litigation in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and materials science. He also has experience in intellectual property due diligence matters for domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Roses has prosecuted patent applications for life sciences and university clients both internationally and in the United States. In the pharmaceutical area, he has been involved in several Hatch-Waxman litigations.

Mr. Roses has also advised both for-profit and not-for-profit clients on issues relating to food allergen law.

Mr. Roses is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Recent Highlights

• Performed IP due diligence for a leading European specialty pharmaceutical company for a potential in-licensing of a drug product for treating a women's health disorder, including freedom-to-operate, patentability and market exclusivity analyses
• Represented innovator pharmaceutical companies in ANDA patent infringement litigations involving Paragraph IV challenges from generic drug companies
• Prosecuted a specialty pharmaceutical company’s patent portfolio in the area of novel delivery systems. The portfolio included over 50 U.S. applications and their associated foreign applications.

Past Experience

During law school, Mr. Roses worked as a patent associate at BioChemics, Inc., in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he researched and drafted patent applications for drug delivery systems. He was also the President of Boston College's Intellectual Property and Technology Forum (IPTF), a student-run organization and online legal journal, from 2008 to 2009. Mr. Roses was the recipient of the Rita Q. and Robert Tobin Scholarship for Intellectual Property Law.

Mr. Roses was a senior research associate at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2002 to 2006, where, in addition to his work as a medicinal chemist, he aided in the preparation of patent applications. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Roses was a medicinal chemist at Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., also in Cambridge.

During his undergraduate studies, Mr. Roses was a research assistant in the Chemistry Department at Connecticut College, where his research focused on the synthesis and derivatization of Phorbol, a fused polycyclic natural product with anti-cancer and anti-HIV properties. Mr. Roses presented this data at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society. He was also the recipient of the American Institute of Chemists Award, the Paul Abel Schwartz Memorial Prize and a Pfizer Prepare Fellowship.

Professional Activities

Mr. Roses is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Boston Patent Law Association, the Intellectual Property Law section of the American Bar Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute of Chemists. He has served on the Boston Bar Association’s New Lawyers in Transition committee since 2009.

Community Involvement

Mr. Roses volunteers at Pine Street Inn, a Boston-based homeless shelter and outreach organization. He also volunteers for Community Servings.