Dr. Emily Roberts focuses her practice on patent preparation, prosecution, and strategic counseling in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemistry, and materials. She provides patent services to a diverse client base that includes individual inventors, startups, midsized companies, and multinational pharmaceutical companies.

In addition to managing U.S. and international patent portfolios, she regularly conducts freedom-to-operate, patentability, and due diligence analyses. Emily has drafted multiple patent term extension applications and is well versed in patent term analyses. She also has experience with post-grant procedures, including reissue applications, ex parte reexamination, and inter partes review proceedings.

Her patent and research experience spans a wide range of technologies, including small molecule pharmaceuticals, cannabinoids, nutraceuticals, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), pharmaceutical formulations, methods of treatment, medical devices, microfluidics, nanoparticles, energy conversion catalysts, biofuels, and renewable energy materials and processes related to carbon capture and conversion.

Emily received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. While in law school, Emily was a production editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and president of the Patent Law Society. She also earned a Law & Technology Certificate from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and was part of a team that received first place in the USPTO National Patent Drafting Competition.

Emily holds a Ph.D. in materials chemistry from the University of Southern California, where her doctoral research focused on developing sustainable methods for synthesizing colloidal inorganic nanoparticle catalysts for renewable energy applications. Her graduate work earned her the ACS and NIST Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry. She has also published several first-author papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented her research at major scientific meetings, including the American Chemical Society and the International Materials Research Conference, as well as at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Emily received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she conducted organic methodology research.