Mark S. Ellinger is a Senior Principal in Fish & Richardson’s Twin Cities office. He was the Managing Principal of the Twin Cities office from 2002 to 2009. Dr. Ellinger’s practice emphasizes patent prosecution, opinions, due diligence investigations, licensing and counseling in the medical biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, and medical science fields.

Dr. Ellinger’s projects have involved subject matter such as genomics, proteomics, gene therapy, xenotransplantation, transgenic animals, transgenic plants, metabolic engineering, immunoassays, nucleic acid-based assays, antisense technology, nucleic acid analogues, microarrays, vaccines, stem cells, medical devices, food science, and potential treatments for diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, allergy, arthritis, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Disease.

His litigation experience includes immunodiagnostics, cardiac assays, microsatellite DNA assays, plant genetics, and transgenic animals.

His licensing experience includes university/industry collaborations, patent outlicensing and inlicensing programs, and joint ventures.