Martin F. Savitzky has been engaged in the practice of law since 1979 in both the private and corporate sectors. From 1989 until 1998, Mr. Savitzky held the positions of vice president-patents and general counsel-RPR Gencell, with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (predecessor of Aventis Pharmaceuticals, now sanofi-aventis), a research-based global pharmaceutical company. In these positions, he managed the U.S. and U.K. patent functions and was responsible for providing patent prosecution, patent counseling and studies, and intellectual property litigation management services, as well as general legal service to RPR's corporate and research divisions.

From 1979 to 1989, Mr. Savitzky was an associate and then partner at Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP, where his practice included all aspects of patent, trademark, and copyright litigation; patent prosecution in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology arts; and the negotiation of confidentiality, technology license and litigation settlement agreements.

Mr. Savitzky joined Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP as of counsel in 2000.

Year Joined Organization:

2000

Practice Group(s):

Biotechnology and BioPharma

Bar Admissions:

Pennsylvania, 1979

New Jersey, 1981

U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1982

U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980

U.S. Federal Courts, 1980

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1980

Education:

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1979
J.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1975
M.S.
Major:  Organic Chemistry

University of Chicago, 1973
B.S.
Major:  Chemistry

Past Employment Positions:

Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Vice President-Patents and General Counsel-RPR Gencell, 1989 - 1998

Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP
Associate, Partner, 1979 - 1989

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Member

Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association

Member

Montgomery County Bar Association

Member

Biolaw and Business

Editorial Advisory Board

Association of Corporate Patent Counsel

Emeritus

Representative Clients:

Campbell Soup Company

Ladie & Friends, Incorporated

Aventis Pharmaceutical

Crucell Holland

Maxygen

Henkel

Verion

Exonhit Therapeutics

Galapagos Genomics

Guidant Corporation

Innocoll, Inc.

Representative Cases:

Custom Decor, Inc. v. Nautical Crafts Inc., 502 F.Supp. 154 (E.D.Pa. 1980)

Published Works:

"Photochemical Additions of Acrylic 1,3-dienes to Naphthalene," (Co-Author with N.C. Yang and J. Libman), JACS, 94,9226, 1972

"Approaches to the Synthesis of Vindoline and Miroestrol", MIT, 1975

"The Laser Invention - Doctrine of Constructive Reduction to Practice", Law School of University of Pennsylvania, Senior Thesis, 1979

Where's the Patent? - Effects of Gene Patents in Advancing Gene Therapy, FDA-NIH Gene Therapy Conference, June, 1996

"Multiplicity and the Licensing Dilemma: The Equitable Exploitation of Patent Assets", Journal of Biolaw and Business, Vol. 2, No. 8, p. 26-32, Spring, 1999

Dealing with Big Pharma, Journal of Biolaw and Business, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2000

 

Classes/Seminars Taught:

"Where's the Patent? - Effects of Gene Patents in Advancing Gene Therapy", FDA-NIH Gene Therapy Conference, June, 1996

"Dealing with Big Pharma", BIO2000 Conference, Boston, MA (in press for the 2000 Summer/Fall Issue, Journal of Biolaw and Business)., March 28, 2000

Honors and Awards:

Phi Beta Kappa

Sigma Xi Society