Nixon & Vanderhye Shareholder Lars Genieser, Ph.D. is a Registered Patent Attorney active in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and material sciences industries.  He is engaged in a broad range of patent prosecution and counseling activities including application preparation and filing, office action response drafting, preparation of responses and advocacy in oppositions, opinion drafting, and patent portfolio development and management in the U.S. and globally.  Lars counsels clients on identifying and defining inventions, worldwide patent protection strategies, complex inventorship and ownership questions, and risk analysis. 

Lars pursues and obtains patents and manages patent portfolios for pharmaceutical compounds (large molecules (biologics) and small molecules), including oncologic drugs, antibodies, antibiotics, ion channel regulators, analgesics, drugs for treatment of bone disorders, antiemetics, and neuroprotective agents, vaccines, formulations of plant-derived active pharmaceutical ingredients, pharmaceutical formulations, pharmaceutical polymorphs, epigenetics, controlled and targeted pharmaceutical release systems, polymer-metal composite particles, nanotechnology, organometallic chemistry, quantum dots, bioinformatics, pesticides, novel polymers, coatings, cosmetics, electrochemistry, water purification, and chemical and materials processes for pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing. For example, he developed and manages a complex international patent portfolio for a successful cancer treatment drug.

Lars is experienced in responding to and prevailing over pre-grant and post-grant patent oppositions, obtaining Patent Term Extensions and Supplementary Protection Certificates in the U.S. and abroad, rendering opinions on patentability, freedom-to-operate, patent validity, and license scope, and preparing patent licenses.  His clients include major research universities, large companies, and start-up enterprises.  Lars brings a practical and business-oriented approach to counseling clients at all stages of the patenting and technology-monetization process.

Lars was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted postdoctoral research at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands as an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow.  He is fluent in German.