About Me

Patent Practice Areas

Specialties

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Arts
Patent Preparation, Filing, and Prosecution before the USPTO
Portfolio Management Services
IP Strategy Consulting
Coordination with Outside Counsel

My Approach

Developing a patent portfolio is often the foundation for starting or growing your business, even when funds are limited. As a solo practitioner, I can provide knowledgeable patent services at reasonable rates at the earliest stages of your inventive and business development process.

A Team Member in Your Corner

Whether a single patent or an extensive portfolio of worldwide filings, I can act as your virtual, in-house patent manager to make sure responses timely are filed, technically sound, and protection is maintained. I keep in regular contact with inventors or company representative regardless of where geographically located.

Legacy of Success

For over ten years, I have worked with clients as thy evolve from early startups to publicly traded companies. I have successfully secured issued patents that cover biotech research tools, antiviral agents, novel cancer compounds. pest control methods, air purification apparatuses, fuel additives , and biofilm disinfectants.

David W. Ladner, Ph.D and M.B.A.

David W. Ladner earned his B.S. in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Georgia, where he worked under the direction of Professor Richard K. Hill. Following two postdoctoral research associate positions, first at the University of Washington with Dr. Niels Andersen and then at Syntex, S.A. with Dr. Joseph Muchowski, Dr. Ladner became a Research Chemist with American Cyanamid in Princeton, NJ. He designed, carried out and directed the synthesis of organic compounds useful for crop protection and is himself a named inventor on more than 20 U.S. patents. At Cyanamid he served as Group Leader, Senior Group Leader and a Research Manager in the Herbicide Discovery Section and was awarded the Cyanamid Scientific Achievement Award for his role in designing potent, selective, and short residual herbicides.

Dr. Ladner became a Registered Patent Agent in 2000 and was appointed as the Patent Liaison in Chemical Research for Bayer Pharmaceuticals in West Haven, CT. He was responsible for drafting and assembling patent applications covering compounds useful in the treatment of Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity and Osteoporosis. During that time he also earned an M.B.A. in Pharmaceutical Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Following positions as the in-house Manager of Intellectual property at a number of small pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, Dr. Ladner established Ladner Patent Management LLC in 2009, where he continues to provide services to individual inventors and smaller startup Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies. His practice includes acting as a virtual in-house patent manager and preparing and prosecuting new patent applications.

Dr. Ladner has been a Registered Patent Agent (#45,516) since March 2000, and is member of the American Chemical Society, the National Association of Patent Practitioners, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and Alpha Chi Sigma.