Jacqueline Cohen

About Jacqueline Cohen

Seasoned, business oriented, articulate, high-performing, and personable IP Counsel. Domestic and International (SA, Europe, and APAC) Senior Legal Counsel experience. A result oriented, outside the box thinker who is an intellectually curious self-starter and a quick learner with a can-do attitude. Integrates and communicates well with clients and co-workers. Broad law firm and corporate experience managing global IP portfolios, negotiating a wide array of commercial and R&D agreements, and communicating legal risks and issues to Senior business leaders and Executives in the pharmaceutical, nutritional, and food & beverage fields. 10+ years supporting businesses built on biotechnology-based innovations. Many years of experience developing and implementing IP strategies and providing strategic legal advice. Experience managing budgets, internal/external personnel, and teams. Extensive experience conducting IP due diligence assessments for acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances, as well as freedom-to-operate, invalidity, and patentability assessments. Experience managing global trademark portfolios, including negotiating co-branding and co-existence agreements and conducting trademark clearance assessments for registration and use of target marks, logos and taglines. Experience managing IP litigation (including ANDA paragraph IV litigation), reexamination, IPR, invalidation, and opposition proceedings, including selecting and guiding Internal and External Legal Counsel.Member of Delaware State Bar; Registered USPTO Patent Attorney; Registered Pharmacist (now Inactive)

Experience

1. Executive Director, Global Intellectual Property

   KARL STORZ

   Jun 2025 — Present

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

  Juris Doctor (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law

  1998 — 2002

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Pharmacy, Chemistry

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Bioscience
• Enzyme Technology
• Biotechnology
• Nutritionals
• Dna Sequencing
• Rna
• Patent Strategy
• Intellectual Property Strategy
• Protein Structure
• Enzymes
• Lifesciences
• Pharmaceutics
• Patent Portfolio Management
• Licensing Negotiations
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Asset Management
• Patentability
• Licensing
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Technology Transfer
• Patent Searching
• International Law
• Intellectual Property
• R&D
• Due Diligence
• Biotherapeutics
• Biotechnology Industry
• Patent Preparation
• Pharmaceuticals
• Litigation
• Protein Chemistry
• Management
• Patent Portfolio Analysis
• Drafting Patent Applications
• Trade Secrets
• Licensing Agreements
• Freedom to Operate
• Client Counseling
• Commercialization