Kimberly A. W. Peaslee PhD
Associate

Biography

Kimberly is a member of the firm’s Patent, Trademark, and Licensing practice group. She assists clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and litigation matters.

Before joining Devine Millimet, attorney Peaslee was an associate at the law firm of Foley Hoag, LLP, in their Intellectual Property (IP) Department in Boston. In the Patent Department, she drafted patent applications and responses to USPTO office actions for clients in the small molecule, biotechnology, polymers and materials technologies areas. In the IP Litigation Department, she drafted preliminary invalidity contentions, preliminary non-infringement contentions, portions of the claim construction brief, and third party subpoenas in a molecular diagnostics patent infringement case. Prior to that, she was a law clerk/IP attorney for BAE Systems in Nashua, NH, and a patent fellow at Merck & Co., Inc.

Kimberly practices out of our Manchester, NH office.

EDUCATION:

University of New Hampshire School of Law, Juris Doctor (Cum Laude), 2009
Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2008
University of Southern Maine, Bachelors of Arts in Chemistry, (Cum Laude), 1999

Professional Affiliations

• Boston Intellectual Property Inn of Court, associate (2009 – present)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association, member (2007 – present)
• Boston Patent Law Association, member (2007 – present)

Awards & Honors

• Merck Patent Fellowship, 2006 – 2009
• IPO Education Foundation’s Donald W. Banner Corporate Intern Scholarship Recipient, 2008
• American Chemical Society’s Outstanding Student Affiliate, 1999
• New England Institute of Chemist Award, Outstanding Senior in Chemistry, 1999

Publications

• Alexia, B.A., Fox, B.A., Hori, T., Peaslee, K.A.W., Anderson, A.C., and Bzik D.J. (2004) Toxoplasma gondii: generation of novel truncation mutations in the linker domain of dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase, Experimental Parasitology, Vol 106. pp. 179-182.
• Peaslee, K and Anderson, A (2001), Toward Rational Design of Species-Specific Inhibitors of Pneumocystis carinii thymidylate synthase and Toxoplasma gondii dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase, J Eukaryotic Microbiology, Vol. 48, pp. 174S-175S.
• Tracy, H.J, Mull, J.L., Klooster, W.T., Martin, J.A., Haug, J., Wallace, S., Rudloe, I., and Watts (Peaslee), K. (2005) Enhanced photoluminescence from group 14 metalloles in aggregated and solid solutions, Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 44, Number 6, pp. 2003-2011.

Bar Admissions

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Massachusetts
• Maine
• District of Columbia