Robert Bakin is a registered patent agent and contract specialist who focuses his practice on patent rights, technology issues, and business issues.
He researches, reviews, and analyzes foreign and domestic patents and patent applications. He also prepares and reviews technology related contracts.
Dr. Bakin performs patent prior art searches, conducts patent due diligence (investor and company side), and analyzes complex freedom-to-operate issues.
He has prepared and prosecuted foreign and domestic patent applications. He regularly researches various patent databases, reviews technical disclosures, and analyzes patent rights of clients and competitors throughout the world.
Dr. Bakin also prepares, reviews, and edits a wide range of contracts including master agreements, template agreements, subcontracts, and contract proposals. In this capacity, he also reviews and edits research plans, statements of work (SOW), technical project descriptions, and project deliverables.
He prepares contracts such as confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (CDAs and NDAs), material transfer agreements (MTAs), patent licensing agreements, consulting agreements, sponsored research agreements (SRAs), clinical trial agreements (CTAs), general services agreements, and manufacturing agreements.
Dr. Bakin has experience working with a wide range of technologies, with an emphasis in the biotechnology and life sciences areas. He has worked with the following technologies: medical devices, diagnostics, infectious disease vaccines and therapeutics (bacterial and viral), immunology, pharmaceuticals (brand name, traditional generics, and protein based biogenerics), oncology, and genetics.
He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Virginia publishing several papers on mammalian signal transduction and the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression. As a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University, Dr. Bakin researched novel molecular mechanisms responsible for enhancing cancer sensitivity to therapeutic doses of ionizing radiation.
Prior to graduate school, Dr. Bakin was a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience. There, he co-authored several articles on the molecular mechanisms of mammalian olfaction, sperm motility and memory. While an undergraduate, he assisted in the evolutionary characterization of pathogenic strains of E. coli bacteria.
