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Direct dial: (703) 463-3073
timothy.donaldson [at] latimerIP.com
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 Timothy B. Donaldson provides legal counseling and services relating to the procurement and enforcement of intellectual property rights, focusing his practice in the biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and chemical arts.
Mr. Donaldson's practice includes:
 Preparing, Filing, and Prosecuting Patent
Applications in the U.S. and Abroad
Providing Opinions of Counsel Addressing
Patentability, Infringement, Enforceability,
and Inventorship of U.S. Patents
Due Diligence Investigations
Counseling Clients in the Areas of Licensing, Patent
Prosecution, Including Inter Partes Reexamination
and Interferences, and Litigation.
Before joining Latimer, Mayberry, and Matthews Intellectual Property Law, LLP, Mr. Donaldson was an attorney with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, for seven years. There he focused his practice in preparing patentability and freedom-to-operate opinions and counseling large and small clients in all aspects of patent prosecution, foreign and domestic, primarily in the biotechnology and chemical fields and assisting clients in district court patent litigations involving pharmaceutical products. Mr. Donaldson has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications directed to novel DNA and protein sequences, antibodies, DNA expression vectors, transgenic plants, yeast expression systems, vaccines, drug screening, and diagnostic methods. He also has significant experience in all aspects of interference practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including advising clients about potential interferences, drafting papers to initiate interference, drafting declarations and motions, taking and defending depositions, and participating in appeals of interferences before the Federal Circuit and in federal district courts.
Mr. Donaldson's scientific background includes work in cellular and molecular immunology, parasitology, and viral-based gene expression in plants. He obtained a B.S. and M.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University and completed some doctoral work at Yale University before embarking on his legal career.
Admitted to practice:
Virginia
District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
George Mason School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999)
Wake Forest University (M.S., Biology, 1994)
Wake Forest University (B.S., Biology, magna cum laude, 1992)
Professional Associations and Societies
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar
Federal Circuit Bar
American Bar Association
Intellectual Property Owners Association
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