Smart & Biggar welcomes Jennifer Ledwell to our Life Sciences patents group

Smart & Biggar is pleased to welcome Jennifer Ledwell to our internationally recognized Life Sciences patents group. Jennifer joins the firm as a Senior Patent Agent, with a practice primarily focused on patent drafting and prosecution in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry. She is located in our Ottawa office.

Drawing on her extensive scientific background, Jennifer has experience patenting a wide range of biochemical and chemical technologies. She has been a registered Canadian Patent Agent since 2003 and is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of Canadian clients.

Jennifer began her career at Smart & Biggar as a technical consultant and patent agent from 2000 to 2007 and continued to gain experience in the patent group of a Canadian full-service firm and in the Canadian office of a global intellectual property firm.

Before becoming a patent agent and pursuing a career in intellectual property law, Jennifer obtained a Ph.D. from Stanford University in the life sciences field and spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale University.

We wish Jennifer great success as she joins the team at Smart & Biggar.