Samantha is a registered patent agent with a background in chemistry and significant patenting experience in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech spaces. She focuses her practice on US and international patent prosecution and counseling, managing large-scale patent portfolios, IP due diligence, and patent opinion work. Samantha advises life sciences and chemical companies of all sizes, including clinical-stage biotechnology companies and midsize pharmaceutical businesses.

Prior to joining Mintz, Samantha worked as a patent agent and earlier as a technology specialist at a global law firm. She was also a technical specialist/scientific advisor at an intellectual property law firm.

Samantha has experience with multistep, organometallic, and classical synthesis techniques as well as diverse analytical chemistry approaches including Chiral HPLC, assorted optical analytical techniques, and X-ray crystallography.

She completed her doctoral work in synthetic organic chemistry with a focus on chirality and analytical molecular recognition assays. While earning her PhD, Samantha served as a technical development lead/visiting researcher-scholar for a company developing reagent kits for the high-throughput discovery of asymmetric reactions and as a graduate teaching assistant.