Eli Loots, Ph.D., a partner in Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP’s San Francisco office, has been named to the 2013 Northern California Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers magazine for his intellectual property practice. The Rising Stars list includes the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the region who are age 40 or younger and/or have been in practice for less than ten years.
Loots’ practice focuses on client counseling, opinion and due diligence work, and patent preparation and prosecution in the chemical and molecular biology arts. He assists startup companies in developing their core IP portfolios. Dr. Loots also assists fortune 500 companies with managing and developing strategies for their key technologies.
Dr. Loots obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from U.C. Berkeley, with an emphasis on neuroscience and biophysics. His research focused on the structure/function relationship of ion channel gating and involved engineering various ion channels so that various fluorescent probes could be attached to observe the structural rearrangements of the ion channel as it passed through its various states. Dr. Loots attended Boalt Hall (U.C. Berkeley) for his law degree and has an undergraduate degree in chemistry.
Super Lawyers honors outstanding lawyers, from more than 70 practice areas, who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Nominated attorneys are those who have been personally observed in action through co-counsel, opposing counsel, or courtroom observation. The full list of Northern California Rising Stars can be found at www.superlawyers.com.
With over 275 lawyers and scientists nationwide, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP dedicates its practice to all aspects of intellectual property law including litigation. Consistently ranked among the top intellectual property firms worldwide, Knobbe Martens serves a diverse group of clients from multinational corporations to emerging businesses of all stages. Headquartered in Orange County, California, Knobbe Martens also has offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle and Washington, D.C. More information about the firm can be found at www.knobbe.com.