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Melissa Haulcomb, Ph.D. is an intellectual property lawyer in the Chicago office focusing on patent litigation and client counseling. 

Melissa is experienced in many phases of patent litigation, including pre-suit investigation, pleadings, fact and expert discovery, Markman hearings, depositions, discovery and dispositive motion practice, trial and witness preparation, as well as pre-trial hearings. Melissa has experience with complex patent licensing agreements, litigation arising under the Hatch-Waxman Act, trademark and copyright litigation, breach of contract claims, arbitration proceedings, proceedings before the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), drafting patent applications, patent prosecution, preparing requests for supplemental examination of patents, and due diligence matters.

Additionally, Melissa has participated in pro bono cases including assisting an individual seeking asylum under Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture (CAT) in Immigration Court, investigating claims of tortured confession for review by the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (TIRC), and various matters for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.

Melissa has technical experience in the life sciences, including neuroscience, molecular biology, and preclinical phases of drug development such as screening assays, target validation, H2L and lead optimization processes, study design, in vitro ADME and cell culture testing, in vivo pharmacology, formulation analysis, and in vivo efficacy testing. Melissa also has technical experience in clinical chemistry diagnostics, test method development and validation, physical and wet chemistry testing of APIs, immunology, neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders, learning and memory processes, as well as environmentally-induced or pathologically-induced mRNA and protein expression changes.

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