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Sophia Zahn is an associate in our San Diego office. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution and portfolio management, due diligence, IP strategy, transactions/agreements, and opinions/counseling. Sophia currently assists clients in various fields of technology including chemical, pharmaceutical, polymer/materials, and medical device fields.
Sophia earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law where she served as Senior Editor on the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal and competed in the USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition. Additionally, Sophia was accepted into the Mann School of Pharmacy where she earned a graduate certificate in Regulatory and Clinical Affairs.
Sophia earned her M.S. in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied organic and polymer chemistry. Her research focused on synthesizing macrocyclic ligands linked to monomers, polymerizing those monomers, and forming organometallic complexes to obtain polymer-bound catalysts.
Sophia was a Summer Associate with Knobbe Martens in 2022 and joined the firm as an Associate in 2023.
Baker, M.A.; Zahn, S.F.; Varni, A.J.; Tsai, C.-H.; Noonan, K.J.T., Elucidating the Role of Diphosphine Ligand in Nickel-Mediated Suzuki–Miyaura Polycondensation, Macromolecules, 2018, 51, 5911-5917 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01333