919.854.1400 phone / 919.854.1401 fax
Kenneth D. Sibley
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Ken Sibley has been practicing intellectual property law since 1985, and focuses his practice in biotechnology and chemical areas. Ken received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Biology and Psychology from Lycoming College, his Master of Arts in Neurobiology from the University of Rochester, and his Juris Doctor degree from Duke University. Ken is a member of the North Carolina Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has been a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Duke University School of Law since 1996 and an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Practice in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University since 2007, where he teaches courses on patent law and patent claim drafting. Ken is an author and editor of The Law and Strategy of Biotechnology Patents, 1994 (Butterworth Heineman), and has authored or co-authored numerous articles relating to patent law, including an article entitled "Avoiding the obvious," appearing in the February 2009 issue of Nature Biotechnology, and "Practical Utility: Evolution Suspended?" IDEA (1992). Ken is an associate member of the Association of University Technology Managers and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is on the Board of Directors of the Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association. In 2004, Ken was ranked as the #1 patent and intellectual property lawyer in North Carolina by Business North Carolina magazine, based on a poll of North Carolina lawyers, and in 2005 was inducted into the magazine's Legal Elite Hall of Fame. Ken has also been included in The Best Laywers in America from 2008 through 2010, based on a peer-review survey of attorneys across the country.Shareholder
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919.854.1400
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919.854.1401
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P.O. Box 37428
Raleigh, NC 27627
Raleigh, NC 27627