12255 El Camino Real Suite 250, San Diego, CA USA 92130
Tiffany Thomas practiced as a patent agent for over 15 years before graduating with honors from law school in 2020. She focuses her practice on patent prosecution, counseling and management for companies, universities and institutions of all sizes in life sciences, biotechnology, medical technology, chemistry, and pharmaceuticals.
Before joining the firm, Dr. Thomas was a patent agent with an Atlanta IP law firm. In addition to her law firm experience, Dr. Thomas worked in-house as a senior patent agent at Illumina, Inc. in San Diego, California, a global leader in developing and manufacturing life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale DNA and RNA protein analysis. This experience added to her depth of knowledge in competitive landscape analysis, due diligence, freedom-to-operate, opinion writing and patent portfolio counseling and management.
Dr. Thomas earned her Genetics and Molecular Biology doctorate in 2004 from Emory University with Dr. Paul Doetsch, Emory University School of Medicine’s Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research and Associate Director for Basic Research at the Winship Cancer Institute. Her doctoral thesis was titled, “Investigation of the interrelationships between the DNA repair and damage tolerance pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”
While attending law school, Dr. Thomas was a California Western Law Review member.
California Western School of Law J.D. (2020) with honors
Emory University Ph.D. (2004) Genetics and Molecular Biology
University of Tennessee B.S. (1999) Biology and Biochemistry, summa cum laude
California (2021)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2004)
San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
Women in Bio, Southern California, Member
San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association (SDIPLA), Member
Disclaimer
While we are pleased to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail, or by facsimile transmission, contacting Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP or any of its attorneys does not create an attorney-client relationship. The formation of an attorney-client relationship requires consideration of multiple factors, including possible conflicts of interest. An attorney-client relationship is formed only when both you and the Firm have agreed to proceed with a defined engagement.
DO NOT CONVEY TO US ANY INFORMATION YOU REGARD AS CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL A FORMAL CLIENT-ATTORNEY RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
If you do convey information, you recognize that we may review and disclose the information, and you agree that even if you regard the information as highly confidential and even if it is transmitted in a good faith effort to retain us, such a review does not preclude us from representing another client directly adverse to you, even in a matter where that information could be used against you.
