Dr. Robert Cerpa is a Senior Patent Agent in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster and has been with Morrison & Foerster since 1996. He has extensive experience in patent drafting and patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in coordination of patent prosecution before the European Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office, and other jurisdictions in association with foreign patent counsel. He also has substantial expertise in prior art searching in the chemical and biotechnology arts, in due diligence inquiries and intellectual property portfolio evaluations, in litigation support, and in patent interferences. Dr. Cerpa has worked with a wide range of clients, including start-up biotech and chemistry companies, large pharmaceutical companies, universities, and independent inventors.
Dr. Cerpa has prosecuted patent applications in several areas of chemistry and biotechnology, including small-molecule pharmaceuticals, protein and DNA compositions, bioinformatics, liposomes, scientific instrumentation, and chemical processes. He has also participated in significant projects in the areas of materials science and solid-state physics.