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FOCUS AREAS

Intellectual Property

Life Sciences

Patents and Innovations

HIGHLIGHTS

EXPERIENCE

Dr. Lee A. Johnson is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where heprovides counsel and assistance to clients in intellectual property matters, including patentcounseling, drafting, and prosecution.

Lee also represents clients in IP disputes before the courts and before the U.S. Patent and TrademarkOffice (USPTO), and he regularly acts on behalf of both investors and growth-stage innovativecompanies and transactional IP counsel in licensing and technology transfer matters, researchcollaborations and partnerships, initial public offerings (IPOs), mergers, and acquisitions.

Lee represents clients from a range of industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medicaldevices, and agriculture and food technologies.

Before joining Wilson Sonsini, Lee practiced IP law with a major Canadian-based international lawfirm.

Lee is fluent in English and French.

CREDENTIALS

EducationB.C.L. and LL.B., McGill University, 2008With DistinctionPh.D., Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, 2006B.Sc., Molecular Genetics, University of Alberta, 1998With Honors

Associations and MembershipsMember, Quebec Bar, American Intellectual Property Law Association Plant BiotechnologySubcommittee, Canadian Bar Association, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

AdmissionsState Bar of CaliforniaState Bar of Massachusetts

Wide Industry RangeLee represents clients from a range of industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medicaldevices, and agriculture and food technologies.

Lee A. JohnsonPARTNER

Patents andInnovations

San Diego

ljohnson@wsgr.com

858-350-2344

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U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeBar of QuebecLaw Society of Ontario

INSIGHTS

Select Publications

"CIPO Issues New Practice Notice on Medical Uses," Intellectual Asset Management, July 3, 2013Co-author with E. Manolakis, "When Two Is Better Than One: Synergistic Combination Patents,"Life Sciences and the Law Current Issues, 2012-2013Co-author with E. Li, A. Bhargava, W. Qiang, M.C. Friedmann, N. Forneris, R.A. Savidge, S.D.Mansfield, B.E. Ellis, and C.J. Douglas, "The Class II KNOX Gene KNAT7 Negatively RegulatesSecondary Wall Formation in Arabidopsis and Is Functionally Conserved in Populus," 194(1) NewPhytologist, 102-115, 2012Co-author with E.J. Gilchrist, G.W. Haughn, C.C. Ying, S.P. Otto, J. Zhuang, D. Cheung, B.Hamberger, F. Aboutorabi, T. Kalynyak, J. Bohlmann, B.E. Ellis, C.J. Douglas, and Q.C.B. Cronk,"Use of Ecotilling as an Efficient SNP Discovery Tool to Survey Genetic Variation in WildPopulations of Populus Trichocarpa," 15 Molecular Ecology 1367-1378, 2006Co-author with C.J. Douglas, "Populus Trichocarpa Monopteros/Auxin Response Factor5 (ARF5)Genes: Comparative Structure, Sub-functionalization, and Populus-Arabidopsis Microsynteny," 85Botany 1058-1070, 2007

Select Speaking Engagements

"Early-Stage Corporate Issues—Research and Development, Ownership, and Funding," AIPLASpring Meeting, Los Angeles, April 30, 2015"Licensing Do's and Do Not Do's for Start-Ups," MedTech North 2012, Montreal, Canada, April 18-19, 2012"Integrating Open Innovation Business Practices into Licensing-Out Strategies," ACCT Innovation2011, Montreal, Canada, November 20-22, 2011