Peter J Dehlinger

Peter Dehlinger is an Intellectual Property partner in King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office. He has more than 30 years of experience as a patent attorney. His practice encompasses patent procurement and counseling, invalidity and non-infringement opinions, licensing advice, as well as patent and technical support in litigation and interference matters. Involved in patent law before and during the rise of biotechnology, he has particular expertise in the needs of biopharmaceutical companies, and currently represents companies with technologies in molecular biology, pharmaceutical chemistry, drug delivery systems, diagnostics, instrumentation, microfluidics, solid-state devices, and image-guided surgery. Representative clients include, AVI Biopharma, UltraClean Technology Systems, GeneLabs Technologies, Picobella, LP, Helix Biopharma, Dendreon, Nektar Therapeutics, Solexa, Ventria Bioscience, Carbylan, Bioabsorbable Therapeutics and Oraya Therapeutics.

Selected Publications

• "Guide to Patenting in the 21st Century,” 20/20 for the Twenty First Century," Yamamoto Commemorative, Volume, 2001. p. 388.
  
  
• "An Inventor's Guide to Patenting Polynucleotide Inventions," Biotechnology Law Report, 19(2):155, April 2000.
  
  
• "Patenting Gene-Therapy Inventions,” Concept to Clinical Trials, Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology, Proceedings of lntl. Conference, Bay Area, April 1999.
  
  
• "Patent Guide for Miniaturists," J. Biomed Microdev., 1(2):99, February 1999
  
  
• "Computer-Assisted DNA Sequence Inventions in Gene Therapy and MolecularBiology," Vol 2:3475, Presentation at an International meeting in Greece, 1998
  
  
• "Using Clinical Trial Data to Support and Refine Patent Claims in Gene Therapy Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology," Vol. 2:384, Presentation at an International scientific meeting in Greece, 1998.
  
  
• "Making the Most of Inventive Discoveries in the Phosphorus Chemistry Field: Implications of a Probability Model of Invention," Proc 13th Intl. Conf Phosphorus Chem," Vols 109-1 10:309
  
  
• "Design for an Invention Generator: An alternate View of Non-obviousness," JPTOS; 76(1):22, (1 994)
  
  
• "A Not-so-Radical Approach for Selecting Radical Substitutions in Markush-Type Claims" JPTOS; 74(7):463 (1 992)