{"id":106842,"date":"2024-01-16T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=106842"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:11:49","slug":"lisa-geller","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/lisa-geller\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Geller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Lisa Geller<\/strong> has over 25 years of experience practicing intellectual property law and strategy.\u00a0 She is the principal of Intellectual Property Strategy, LLC, and advises life science and pharmaceutical companies on all aspects of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, emphasizing both short- and long-term strategies and integration of global intellectual property strategy <\/span><span class=\"s2\">with<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> business plans.\u00a0 She works with scientists and entrepreneurs to identify inventions, advising on potential pathways to maximize the utility of patents covering inventions, and working with teams to bridge and coordinate the technical and business aspects of a company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Dr. Geller served as Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property at Frequency Therapeutics and was Head of Intellectual Property at Casebia Therapeutics, Seres Therapeutics, and other innovator companies managing comprehensive intellectual property portfolios.\u00a0 She also served as an Associate General Counsel at Biogen Idec<\/span><span class=\"s2\">,<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> managing the patent portfolios for drugs in all stages of development, from R&amp;D to commercial blockbuster drugs.\u00a0 Before joining Biogen Idec, Dr. Geller practiced patent law in the law firms of Fish &amp; Richardson P.C. and Wilmer Hale, where her practice included all aspects of patent law including client counseling and licensing, primarily in the areas of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Dr. Geller received her PhD in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a post-doctoral fellow and faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She received her JD degree from Boston University School of Law, where she t<\/span><span class=\"s2\">eaches<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <\/span><span class=\"s2\">a seminar on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">patent prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Dr. Geller is also on the editorial<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> advisory<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> board of Science and Engineering Ethics and has published in on topics related to the interface between social issues and science<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> as well as participating in multiple programs related to supporting diversity in science and law<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20326,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106852,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106842\/revisions\/106852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}