Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney

Current

• Writer monthly column Nanotechnology and Patents at nanotech-now.com/columns
• Patent and Business Development Biotech/Nanotech at M Carvalho

Past

• Instructor in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
• Faculty-level position at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dept of Genetics

Education

• Saint John's University School of Law
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• FAHUPE
• Liceu in Angola and Portugal

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Industry

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Websites

• Column Nanotech and Patents

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Summary

Published a legal paper on patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents: "Application of the Festo Framework in Four Recent Appeal Cases." 89(3) J.Pat.&Trademark Off. Soc'y 216-234 (2007); also translated by the Secretariat of AIPPI-Japan, 52(6): 19 (2007). Writer of a monthly column Nanotechnology and Patents.

Have broad knowledge as well as research experience in areas of cancer (NFkB ), virology (HIV, EIAV) , artheriosclerosis (LDL, CD36), inflammation (IL-1), infectious disease (Leishmania) bacteriology, angiogenesis (VEGF, KSHV-GPCR) and molecular biology techniques, including several scientific publications:

Carvalho M. et. al. (1993) Protein interactions with DNA elements in variant equine infectious anemia virus enhancers and their impact on transcriptional activity. J.Virol., 67:6586-6595.

Carvalho M. and Derse D. (1993) PU.1/Spi-1 proto-oncongene regulates a lentivirus promoter. J.Virol., 67:3885-3890.

Carvalho M. and Derse D. (1993) Physical and functional characterization of transcriptional control elements in the equine infectious anemia virus promoter. J.Virol. 67:2064-2074.

Carvalho M. and Derse D. (1991) Mutational analysis of the equine infectious anemia virus Tat-responsive element. J.Virol. 67:2064-2074.

Copper Deficiency Induced by Tetrathiomolybdate Suppresses Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis. Cancer Res., 17:4854-4859. (2002)

Transcriptional regulation of equine infectious anemia virus. Sem. In Virol. 4:61-68. (1992)

Detecting single base substitutions as heteroduplex polymorphisms. Genomics 12:301-306. (1992).

A minimal lentivirus Tat protein. J. Virol. 65:7012-7015. (1991)

Functional typography of lentivirus Tat proteins defined by domain switching. In: Genetic Structure of HIV, W.A. Haseltine and F. Wong-Staal (eds), Raven Press, New York. (1991)

Tn4527, a Tp Sp/Sm transposon related to Tn7 and flanked by IS1. Plasmid 22:256-259. (1989)

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Specialties:

Bar Admissions:
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
New York

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Experience

• Writer monthly column Nanotechnology and Patents

  nanotech-now.com/columns

  (Nanotechnology industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Focus on nanotechnology. The column discusses US Patent law as applied to nanotech inventions.

• Patent and Business Development Biotech/Nanotech

  M Carvalho

  (Chemicals industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

• Instructor in Medicine

  Weill Cornell Medical College, NY

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years)

  Division International Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Conduct research on HIV, IL-1, inflammatory genes, NFkB, transcriptional factors, VEGF, HSHV-GPCR. Supervised thesis research.

• Faculty-level position

  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dept of Genetics

  (Biotechnology industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  Taught a course (credit) on the basic transcriptional machinary of eucharyotes for both Masters and PhD students in the Dept of Genetics. Supervised thesis research on the screening of HIV strains found in the Brazilian population.

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Education

• Saint John's University School of Law

  2003 — 2007

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  Ph.D. , Genetics , 1990 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Study of the transcriptional control of the Equine Infectious Anemia Virus (EIAV), a family member of HIV. A lentivirus transmitted by mosquitos.

• National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

  PhD in Genetics , (Virology; molecular biology; transcription) , 1990 — 1993

  Research thesis on transcriptional control of a lentivirus (EIAV) related to HIV. Thesis involved the use of molecular techniques such as "gel-shifts," DNAase I footprint, site-specific mutagenesis, CAT assays, Reverse Transcription, DNA sequencing. Author and co-author of several scientific papers (Journal of Virology and others).

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  Master in Genetics , ( Bacteriology; molecular biology) , 1986 — 1989

  Thesis research on bacterial transposons carrying antibiotic resistance genes. Studies on the regulation of a transposon flanked by IS. Co-author of a paper in Plasmid.

• FAHUPE

  Bachelor, Licenciatura , Ciencias Biologicas , 1982 — 1986

  Bachelor degree: wrote papers on Zoology, Botanic and Chemistry.
  Licenciatura: Certified high school teacher (science). Taught Biology at high school.

• Liceu in Angola and Portugal

Additional Information

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Websites:

• Column Nanotech and Patents

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Groups:

•    Plaxo.com
•    Pharma Middle East IN (550+) > WWW.HEALTHCAREBUSINESSME.COM
•    Patent Law Group
•    Bionanotechies
•    Lusofonia - Unir os Falantes de Português
•    Patents - Intellectual Property
•    Friends of Portugal
•    Friends of / Amigos do Portugal
•    Global Intellectual Property & Business Lawyers
•    CleanTech
•    Business Portugal
•    Patent and Intellectual Property Practitioners
•    The Star Tracker
•    Patent Informatics Group
•    IP Lawyers
•    Nano-Chips Executives
•    Medical Devices Group
•    NANOSTROM - A Group For NanoTechnology
•    Intellectual Property Professionals
•    US Patent Attorneys/Agents
•    Patent Attorneys Network
•    Angola Incubator
•    Intellectual Property Protection
•    Patents
•    Net Pharma Latin America and Caribbean
•    Hopkins Biotech Network
•    NanoDNA Alliance
•    TEXAS BIOTECH
•    Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
•    North Atlantic Treasures, Flores and Corvo Islands

Magda Carvalho, Ph.D., Patent Attorney’s Honors:

Recipient of the Jack Friedman Award given to outstanding medical research conducted by junior faculty members at Weill Cornell University Medical School NY (1998).

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