Jamie Graham focuses her practice on intellectual property issues involving biological and chemical technologies. Ms. Graham conducts domestic and foreign biological and chemical patent prosecution, particularly in the areas of biotechnology, diagnostics, isolation and purification methodology, immunology and pharmaceuticals. She renders patentability, patent validity and freedom-to-operate opinions; performs intellectual property due diligence; and provides advice to clients regarding various aspects of intellectual property, including inventorship determinations, licensing, transactions, pre-litigation and litigation strategies. Ms. Graham has provided intellectual property advice and services to universities, large corporations, small start-up companies and government entities and has been awarded federal and state contracts for patent legal services. Ms. Graham is the Co-Chair of the firm's Health and Life Sciences team.

Ms. Graham has been a registered U.S. Patent Attorney since 1986. Prior to joining the firm, she served as in-house patent counsel for a pharmaceutical company. She has conducted enzyme isolation and characterization research at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and cardiac and allergy drug dispositon/metabolism research at Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd. Ms. Graham also performed graduate research in neuroimmunology and virology (HIV research conducted at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). She has been an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Law at Emory University.

Ms. Graham was listed in The Best Lawyers of America® for Biotechnology and Intellectual Property in 2015 and each of the 14 years immediately preceding. She was also named a 2012 and 2013 "Atlanta Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Biotechnology Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. Ms. Graham was listed in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers for Patents in 2013 and in The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers in 2011. She was recognized in 2009 and 2010 and most recently in 2012, 2013 and 2014 as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in the area of Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine. Ms. Graham has been recognized as one of Georgia Trend's 2012 “Legal Elite” for Intellectual Property Law. She was honored by the Georgia Chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America at its 2012 Celebration of Hope Gala. Ms. Graham is a recipient of the prestigious 2015 Georgia Bio Community Award for her significant contributions to Georgia's life sciences industry. She is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.