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Dr. Robert J Hilton has extensive experience advising clients in biotechnology and pharmaceutical intellectual property issues. Robert represents a wide array of clients, including international companies and startups. He brings deep technical skills to clients’ work in therapeutics, antibodies, molecular biology, immunology, regenerative medicine, personalized and precision medicine, vaccines, drug delivery systems, cosmetics, and nutraceuticals, making him go-to counsel for patent protection issues of all kinds. Robert’s passion for the law and science allows him to appreciate his clients’ technical innovations and develop strategies for safeguarding and rewarding these advances.
Robert has substantial experience in all aspects of patents, including drafting and prosecution, patentability, validity, and due diligence reviews. He also provides advice on risk management of intellectual property matters. Robert offers honed skills in global patent portfolio creation and management. Robert has guided companies from inception of ideas through building strong patent portfolios to secure business goals.
FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Dthera Sciences' Alzheimer's Therapeutic
First Prosthetic Iris Approved
FDA Approves NorthStar's Tc-99m Generator
RoundTable to Acquire Symmetry Surgical for $143 Million
FDA Approves the First Insulin Pump and Glucose Monitoring System for Children
Hilton, R. J.; Seare, M. C.; Andros, N. D.; Kenealley, Z.; Watt, R. K. Phosphate Inhibits In Vitro Fe3+ Loading into Transferrin by Forming a Soluble Fe(III)-Phosphate Complex: A Potential Non-Transferrin Bound Iron Species. J. Inorg. Biochem., 2012, 110, 1–7.
Hilton, R. J.; Zhang, B.; Martineau, L. N.; Watt, G. D.; Watt, R. K. Anion Deposition in Ferritin. J. Inorg. Biochem. 2012, 108, 8–14.
Hilton, R. J.; Andros, N. D.; Kenealey, Z.; Watt, R. K. The Ferroxidase Center is Essential for Ferritin Iron Loading in the Presence of Phosphate and Minimizes Side Reactions that Form Fe(III)-Phosphate Colloids. Biometals, 2012, 25(2), 259-273.
Snow, C. L.; Martineau, L. N.; Hilton, R. J.; Brown, S.; Farrer, J.; Boerio-Goates, J.; Woodfield, B. F.; Watt, R. K. Ferritin Iron Mineralization Proceeds by Different Mechanisms in MOPS and Imidazole Buffers. J. Inorg. Biochem. 2011, 105 (7), 972–977.
Keyes, J.; Hilton, R.; Farrer, J.; Watt, R. Ferritin as a Photocatalyst and Scaffold for Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis. J. Nanopart. 2011, 13, 2563–2575.
Johnson, J.; Kenealey, J.; Hilton, R. J.; Brosnahan, D.; Watt, R. K.; Watt, G. D. Non-reductive Iron Release from Horse Spleen Ferritin using Desferoxamine Chelation. J. Inorg. Biochem. 2011, 105, 202–207.
Speeches & Seminars
A Negative Role for the Ferritin Nano-Cage: Anion Transport. nanoUtah Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2010.
Maximizing the Efficiency of Ferritin as a Photocatalyst for Applications in an Artificial Photosynthesis System. International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), San Diego, CA, March 2010.