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Anthony R. Prosser

Patent Attorney

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Anthony R. Prosser, Ph.D., is a Registered Patent Attorney with Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (KIPS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Tony focuses on complex organic chemistry patent matters including drafting and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications directed to new chemical compounds and synthetic methodology, due diligence, freedom to operate analysis, and patentability investigations. Tony’s technical areas of expertise include organic synthesis, process chemistry, medicinal chemistry, nucleoside chemistry and drug discovery and development.

Tony attended law school at Georgia State University and graduated summa cum laude. Tony received several best in class (CALI) awards including Patent Drafting and Prosecution; Law Practice Technology, Research Methods, and Criminal Law. Tony’s academic work in law school included archival research of the origin of double patenting and competing in the USPTO’s regional patent drafting competition.

Prior to joining the firm, Tony received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Emory University under Dr. Dennis S. Liotta, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry and an internationally acknowledged leader in academic drug discovery. At Emory, Tony was awarded a Woodruff Fellowship as well as a NSF Graduate Fellowship. Tony’s graduate work focused on the development of a series of molecules that inhibit CXCR4, CCR5, and HIV Reverse Transcriptase simultaneously. The series is currently being pursued as a single agent for the therapeutic treatment of HIV. Tony identified a new synthetic route to produce a known pharmaceutical intermediate in two steps that at the time required a six-step synthesis that produced less than a 10% yield. Tony’s novel synthetic path not only reduced the number of synthetic steps to two, it increased the yield by an order of magnitude. During his doctoral work, Tony made over 100 HIV entry inhibitors for structure activity analysis. Emory University filed a patent application on his graduate work to cover the synthesis and use of his new HIV agents. Tony’s doctoral research was featured in Chemical and Engineering News, Science Daily, A&U Magazine, and was awarded first place in the campus-wide Emory University 3-Minute Thesis Competition.

Recent Articles by Anthony R. Prosser

The Ethics and Practicality of AI Assisted Patent Drafting

Given current and ongoing economic realities, patent practitioners—both in-house and outside counsel—are constantly being asked to do more within existing budgets. Meanwhile, more robust patent applications thick with technical detail are necessary to satisfy courts and patent offices around the world. Working within budgetary constraints without sacrificing quality requires outside the box thinking and use of available tools to streamline as much of the process as possible. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is taking the world by storm, and recently garnered the attention of the American Bar Association, which has just announced the creation of a task force that will examine the impact of AI on law practice and the ethical implications of its use for lawyers.

Let’s Do Something About the Unauthorized Doctrine of Non-Statutory Judicially Created Obviousness-Type Double Patenting

In a June 20, 2022, article on IPWatchdog, I addressed a portion of the June 8, 2022, letter from Senators Leahy, Blumenthal, Klobuchar, Cornyn, Collins and Braun  to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal requesting the USPTO to issue a notice of rulemaking or request for comments in the Federal Register by September 1, 2022, on curbing continuation practice as a means to address “patent thickets.”  As of the date of this article, the USPTO has not issued the notice. In this article, I, along with co-author Anthony Prosser, address the other issue raised in the Senators’ June 8 letter—whether elimination of terminal disclaimers that “allow” patents to issue that are “obvious variations of each other” would increase patent quality and whether patents that are tied by a terminal disclaimer should be considered an admission of obviousness and stand or fall together in litigation.

Past Events with Anthony R. Prosser

Life Sciences Masters™ 2023

Held October 16-18, 2023

Life Sciences Masters™ 2022

October 25-26, 2022

IPWatchdog LIVE 2022

September 11-13, 2022