Tina McKeon, Ph.D.
Principal
404-645-7701
tmckeon@m2IPlaw.com
Leading corporations, universities and research institutions look to Dr. Tina McKeon to protect their technology innovations. While she has diverse experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, she concentrates her practice in the life sciences. Her biotechnology experience includes neuroscience, immunonology, therapeutic antibodies, oncolytic virus therapy, stem cell technology and recombinant technologies in a variety of areas including food and food supplements. Further, Dr. McKeon has worked extensively with medical technology and pharmaceuticals, including cardiac technology, imaging and diagnostics as well as small molecule pharmaceuticals and biologics.
Clients rely on Dr. McKeon’s depth of technical experience and strategic focus, which enable her to quickly understand the technology at hand, as well as its role in an organization’s overall IP portfolio. Her additional background in research and litigation, along with her extensive contacts within the biotechnology community further differentiate Dr. McKeon’s ability to comprehensively counsel large and small clients.
Dr. McKeon is frequently recognized as a leading intellectual property lawyer. She was named Atlanta's "Lawyer of the Year" for Patent Law for 2012 by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community was honored as “Lawyer of the Year.”
Dr. McKeon has also been selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America®. She has been recognized by Chambers and Partners annually since 2009, which stated she "has a respected postdoctoral academic background and is highly regarded for her 'great depth of knowledge,' particularly in biotech matters." She was also voted one of Atlanta Magazine's Georgia Super Lawyers-Rising Stars in 2005, Georgia Super Lawyers in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, and one of Georgia Trend Magazine's "Legal Elite" in 2004 and 2007. Dr. McKeon’s practice focuses on patent prosecution, IP strategy and IP portfolio management for leading universities and research institutions, as well as corporations, in the life sciences and biotechnology fields.
She contributes her talent and time to a number of bioscience and medical device organizations. Dr. McKeon has taught since 2005 in the TI:GER® Program, a collaboration between various Georgia Tech colleges and Emory University School of Law focusing on technology commercialization in a multidisciplinary context.
Memberships and Affiliations
Steering Committee, BIO 2009
Planning Committee, Early State Committee Chair, SEBIO, 2008 to present
Board of Directors, Georgia BIO, 2008-present
Advisory Board, Emerging Leaders Network, Georgia BIO, 2006 to present
Co-chair, Host Committee, Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars Dinner, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Board Member, Future Foundations, a non-profit, youth development organization dedicated to preparing Atlanta's underserved youth for a successful future.
Guardian ad litem, Family Division of Fulton County Superior Court
Publications and Presentations
Opportunities in Innovation, Invention: The Convergence of Law, Science, and the Flash of Genius Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
TechLaw Series at the Emory University School of Law in 2003 and 2004
AIPLA 2006 Advanced Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) seminars
Tennessee Biotechnology Association Annual Meeting 2007
Biotech 2007 (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Kaufman sponsored workshop regarding patent issues and opportunities in technology commercialization 2009
Author of more than 14 scientific publications
Judicial Clerkship
The Honorable Stanley F. Birch, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1996-1997)
Prior Experience
Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Cleveland State University
Senior Research Associate, Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington.
Services
Patent Prosecution
IP Strategy
Portfolio Management
Technologies
Biotechnology
Medical Technology
Pharmaceuticals
Admissions
Georgia
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Education
BS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Physical Therapy
PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anatomy
JD, Emory University
with distinction, Order of the Coif