J. Cooper McDonald, Ph.D.

Cooper is a registered patent attorney with deep technical expertise in the fields of chemistry, biotechnology, and devices. He provides strategic intellectual property portfolio counsel to a wide range of clients, including major research institutions, multinational corporations, and startup companies.

Clients appreciate Cooper’s pragmatic approach to securing worldwide IP protection designed to help them achieve their business goals. By combining his science acumen and legal skills, Cooper protects client innovations related to microfluidics, small molecule and polymer chemistry, diagnostics, and devices. His work involves patent prosecution and opinion work, including the preparation of patentability, non-infringement, invalidity, inventorship, and freedom-to-operate opinions. He also performs due diligence analyses of patent portfolios for venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing opportunities.

Cooper’s doctoral research in the Whitesides laboratory at Harvard University employed a multidisciplinary approach to the study of microfluidic devices, bridging the fields of chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology.

Cooper has co-authored articles for a number of scientific journals, including Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, and Analytical Chemistry.