Nicole Smythe

Nicole Smythe is a patent agent in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Litigation practice.  Her practice focuses on of U.S. and international patent prosecution, patentability and infringement analyses, and due diligence reviews in the chemical arts.  She has also assisted with litigation activities and in adversarial proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Nicole is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  She has worked across a broad range of patent prosecution matters in the fields of pharmaceuticals, organic synthesis, polymers (including bio-based), catalysts, waste water treatment, radioactive waste treatment, oil recovery, mining, packaging, and cosmeceuticals.  She has drafted numerous patent applications and has successfully prosecuted patent applications to grant in jurisdictions around the world.  

Nicole's graduate research focused on carbon-oxygen reductive elimination and dioxygen insertion reactions for the development of selective alkane oxidation catalysts. Nicole was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research focused on metal-catalyzed insertion of carbon dioxide for the preparation of various organic compounds.  She has presented her research at national symposia and has authored of several peer reviewed scientific articles.