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Jesús M. Vázquez

Vice President and General Counsel, United Cannabis Corporation

Jesús M. Vázquez is Vice President and General Counsel at United Cannabis Corporation.  His duties include management and protection of the Company’s intellectual property assets.  He has 22 years of experience handling complex litigation matters, including patent and trademark litigation and related licensing matters.  Mr. Vázquez has assisted Fortune 500 clients to develop strategies to leverage and protect their IP portfolios, including offensive and defensive litigation strategies and risk assessments.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and earned his law degree from the University of Denver College of Law.

Recent Articles by Jesús M. Vázquez

United Cannabis Responds: Highly enriched extracts of plant cannabinoids are inventive

I note that the ‘911 patent claims are novel and inventive because they are directed to never before made liquid formulations of highly enriched extracts of plant cannabinoids. While I believe all thirty-six claims of the ‘911 patent are valid and enforceable, as did the patent examiner who issued the patent, the number and breadth of our claims gives United Cannabis safety in numbers if and when it should become necessary to defend our rights.