Laura Kanouse Vining focuses her practice on biotechnology and pharmaceutical intellectual property litigation. Her experience includes representing clients in various U.S. district courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
Laura leverages her technical background to defend and enforce clients' intellectual property rights in cutting-edge technology, including CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), proteomics, small molecule drugs, bioelectronics, and medical devices. Her litigation experience includes all phases of pretrial litigation. She has drafted motions, assisted with hearings, managed discovery, and deposed several fact witnesses. Laura also has worked extensively with expert witnesses, including assisting in drafting expert reports and preparing expert witnesses for depositions.
Laura is also deeply committed to pro bono work and community involvement. Currently, she is lead associate on a trial team seeking grant of asylum for a family of four as part of the Firm's Border Project. In addition, she serves on the Advisory Board for Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance and educational programming to artists and inventors.
Expérience
- University of Florida (J.D. cum laude 2020; Order of the Coif; Florida Law Review; Florida Blue Key; B.S. in Biomedical Engineering magna cum laude 2016)
- Georgia and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Patent Examiner Extern, United States Patent and Trademark Office (Summer 2018)