Landesberg, Cynthia

Michael Twomey is a partner in firm's Intellectual Property Department, and a member of the Life Sciences, Intellectual Property Litigation and Technology Transactions and Licensing Practice Groups, as well as the Reexamination Working Group. He joined the firm in 2001.

Mr. Twomey has over 17 years experience in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences patents. His practice includes client counseling in all aspects of domestic and foreign patent prosecution, patent portfolio management and development, ex parte and inter partes US patent reexaminations, European patent oppositions, patent litigation, patent licensing, collaborative research and development agreements, strategic alliances and intellectual property due diligence analysis in connection with mergers, acquisitions, private equity placements and public stock offerings. Mr. Twomey also provides clients with opinions relating to issues of patent infringement and validity, and conducts clearance studies and freedom-to-operate opinions for new product development and launches.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Twomey was associated with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLC and Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Mr. Twomey received a JD degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and an AB degree, magna cum laude, in biological sciences from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in biology from 1985 through 1988, and a Graduate Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University from 1985 to 1990, where he conducted research in population genetics relating to the evolution of mutation and recombination rates.

Mr. Twomey is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Boston Patent Law Association.

Mr. Twomey is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.