Grace Gretes

About Grace Gretes

Following completion of my two-year clerkship at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, I joined Tensegrity as an Associate focusing on district court litigation. Prior to that I served as an Associate in the Seattle and D.C. offices of WSGR, where I focused on post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.I have experience working on patent litigation, patent prosecution involving both foreign and domestic patent portfolios, freedom to operate, due diligence, and licensing matters. My patent work has covered a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceutics (structural obviousness, synthesis/process, pharmaceutical formulations, polymorphs, etc.), medical/drug delivery devices and methods of treatment, biotechnology, quantum computing, materials engineering, and genomic technologies.Prior to my work in patent law, I conducted intense research over a broad spectrum of chemistry. Although my doctoral research focused on stereoselective organocatalysis, I also have experience in carbohydrate chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and organic methodology, as well as computational quantum chemistry. My experience at the bench granted me expertise in designing and executing multi-step syntheses of complex molecules, including specific stereoisomers and compounds with isotopic labels. I also have vast experience conducting mechanistic investigations through bench top kinetic studies, as well as computationally.If I\'m not in the courthouse, the lab, a classroom, or the office, you can probably find me on the flying trapeze or jumping out of a plane.

Experience

1. Associate

   Tensegrity Law Group Llp

   Nov 2024 — Present

Education

• Skidmore College

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Chemistry

  2006 — 2010

• University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

  Doctor of Law - JD

  2018 — 2021

• University of Michigan

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Organic Chemistry

  2010 — 2015