Dr. Einhorn is Of Counsel in the San Diego office of Morrison & Foerster LLP and member of the firm’s Patent Group. His practice focuses on the biotechnology, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical and medical device industries, including strategic counseling and comprehensive patent portfolio management for small, medium and large companies. Dr. Einhorn has a wide range of experience in the life sciences, with expertise in molecular biology, immunology, diagnostics, therapeutics, virology, drug delivery systems, high throughput screening, microarray technology, gene therapy, liposomal technology, small molecules, proteomics and bioinformatics. He is a member of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association (SDIPLA) and the American Bar Association.

Dr. Einhorn has practiced law since 1995. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster LLP, Dr. Einhorn was associated with the firms of Fish & Richardson P.C., Townsend & Townsend & Crew LLP, and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox. He joined Morrison & Foerster LLP in January, 2004.

Dr. Einhorn has taught general biology at the college level and was a clinical instructor in endodontics at Georgetown University School of Dentistry. He received his Ph.D. from the Subdepartment of Immunology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute.

While a law school student at George Washington University, Dr. Einhorn worked as a Patent Examiner in a Genetic Engineering art unit at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a Technology Transfer Specialist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. As a law student, Dr. Einhorn was a student intern in the chambers of Judge Paul R. Michel, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and a patent agent and student associate in the biotechnology group of the law firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox.

Recent presentations include lectures on intellectual property rights for the Science Journalism Program, University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institute of the Americas (July, 2005); on protecting plant intellectual property rights at the UCSD Plant Intellectual Property Symposium (May, 2005); on protecting software and bioinformatics intellectual property rights before the San Diego Bioinformatics Forum (April, 2004), on Maximizing the Value of
Intellectual Property for Law Seminars International (LSI) (January, 2004); and, on bioinformatics at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (November 2003).

Dr. Einhorn received his B.A. from the University of Delaware in 1974, his D.D.S from Georgetown University School of Dentistry in 1978, his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989, and his J.D. from George Washington University in 1995. He is licensed to practice law in the state of California and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Attorney.