Brougher, Joanna

Joanna is a patent attorney who focuses her practice on all aspects of services related to patents in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including patentability opinions, patent drafting, domestic and foreign patent prosecution, development and management of patent portfolios, and general client counseling during all phases of a product’s lifecycle, from concept to commercialization.

Joanna’s patent experience covers a variety of complex and innovative inventions involving small molecule drugs, biologics, cell-based technologies, compositions, drug formulations and drug delivery systems, immunotherapeutics, medical devices, diagnostic tests, nanotechnology, and immunology, particularly vaccines and antibodies. Joanna also has experience counseling clients on the Hatch-Waxman Act and is monitoring developments involving biosimilars under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.

Joanna also has extensive experience counseling clients on domestic and international legal and contractual matters, including issues related to U.S. and global clinical trials, intellectual property, technology licensing, laboratory services, joint development, research and development, manufacturing, consulting, confidential disclosure, material transfer and other related agreements.

Joanna is also an Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she teaches a course on biotech and pharmaceutical patent law. She previously was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. Joanna regularly speaks on intellectual property-related topics and is a frequent author of articles related to patent law and drug development. Joanna has published two books on patent law: "Intellectual Property and Health Technologies: Balancing Innovation and the Public's Health" and “Billion Dollar Patents.”

Joanna graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.S. in Microbiology, a B.A. in German, and a Masters in Public Health.  Joanna received her J.D. degree from Boston College Law School. She is admitted to the Massachusetts and New York State Bars as well as the USPTO.