Beverly Lyman, Ph.D.

Practices

• Intellectual Property
• Corporate Transactions & Securities
• Life Sciences

Professional Experience

Beverly is a patent attorney and a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property, Corporate and Life Sciences practice groups. A former faculty member at the medical campus of the University of Tennessee, she focuses on intellectual property transactions, evaluation, enforcement, and prosecution in chemical, medical, and life science areas. She is active in Thompson Hine's Private Equity/Venture Capital Services team, focusing on intellectual property uses in business. She also handles general patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters.

Beverly teaches both biotechnology and chemical patent strategy for the Patent Resources Group (PRG). She taught Intellectual Property Licensing at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. As an academic, she authored numerous scientific publications, including chapters in clinical texts and a biochemistry study guide.

Beverly is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in the states of Ohio and Georgia.

Technical Experience
Biotechnology, chemical, medical diagnostics and therapeutics including regulatory issues and business methods, laboratory reagents and devices, pharmaceuticals including actives and formulations, organ-specific applications including ocular, skin, and pulmonary, and orthopedic and dental compositions.

Beverly also practices in the Cincinnati office:

312 Walnut Street
14th Floor
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Phone: 1.513.352.6596

Education

• Hahnemann Medical College, Ph.D.
• University of Pennsylvania, M.S.
• Thomas Jefferson University, B.S.
• The University of Memphis, J.D., with honors
• Hahnemann Medical College, M.S.

• Global patent licensing.
• Development of global protection strategies for intellectual property assets and portfolios.
• Representation of corporations, entrepreneurs, and university technology transfer offices.
• Diligence and IP audits in acquisitions and licensing ventures.
• U.S. prosecution for corporations, universities, research centers, entrepreneurs, startups, and individuals before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Patent monetization and valuation.
• Global patent prosecution, challenge, and enforcement.

• "Who Leads in Technology Transfer? Establishing Productive Interactions Between Researchers and Technology Transfer Professionals. Tomorrow's Technology Transfer" · The Journal of Association of University Technology Managers, 1 (2009) 3
• Entrepreneurial Use of Soft IP, · Georgia Institute of Technology / Emory University Technology Innovation Program , October 2010
• "Public Patents Versus Private Trade Secrets" · Ohio State Bar Association Annual Convention, Intellectual Property Section, 2007
• "Global IP For Success in the Global Marketplace" · Williams College of Business, Xavier University, 2006, 2007
• "Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property" · Cincinnati Creates Companies, University of Cincinnati, 2004-2007
• “Capitalizing on Discovery: The Business and Policy of Academic Medicine” · University of Cincinnati, 2005

• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-2011)
• Ohio Super Lawyer (2005-2010)