Christopher Lew is a scientific specialist in the Intellectual Property Group, where he supports patent prosecution and IP strategy for life sciences and agricultural innovations.

Christopher conducts patent and non-patent literature searches to support analyses such as patentability, freedom to operate (FTO), invalidity, landscape, and due diligence. He works closely with attorneys and clients to deliver comprehensive intellectual property research and technical support.

Christopher’s principal area of focus is agriculture, where he provides plant portfolio support, including:

• Supporting the drafting of plant patent and plant breeder’s rights application materials
• Supporting plant IP searches

He also supports ST.25 and ST.26 sequence listing preparation for a variety of life science applications.

Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Christopher was a research assistant at the University of California, Davis where he assisted in pre-breeding field experiments involving water stress in genetically diverse introgression lines of processing and fresh market tomatoes. Christopher performed field preparation and planting, collected and entered in-field phenotypic data for tomato and pepper, tomato seed collection and sowing, and performing tomato crosses in-greenhouse.

Christopher received his B.S., with high honors, in plant sciences with an emphasis on plant breeding and genetics, from the University of California, Davis.