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Experience
Dr. Kristin C. Hiibner,
Ph.D., is an attorney at the Pasadena and Ventura County offices of Sheldon Mak
Rose & Anderson. During law school, Dr. Hiibner completed a full-time
externship with the Honorable Judge Audrey B. Collins in the Central District of
California.
Dr. Hiibner has a Ph.D. in
Chemistry and an exceptionally broad technical background, including graduate
work in organic and inorganic chemistry, as well as work experience in plant
pathology and molecular biology. She specializes in a full range of intellectual
property, such as patent prosecution, licensing, opinion writing, due diligence
and risk management, with an emphasis in the pharmaceutical, biotech and
chemical industries.
Dr. Hiibner’s technical knowledge and legal acumen are a significant advantage for her clients in today’s litigious multi-disciplinary intellectual property law arena. She can proficiently tackle a wide spectrum of technical disciplines and simultaneously keep a keen eye out for potential litigation pitfalls.
Qualifications
Bar
Admissions
California
U.S.
District Court for the Central District of California
U.S.
Patent & Trademark Office
Registered
Patent Attorney
Education
Loyola
Law School
Los
Angeles, CA
J.D.
University
of California
San
Diego, CA
Ph.D., Chemistry
Utah
State University
Logan,
UT
B.S.,
Chemistry
Professional
Leadership
Chair,
Adoption Day Committee, Loyola Law School Board of Governors
American
Bar Association
American
Chemical Society
American
Intellectual Property Law Association
Los
Angeles County Bar Association
Los
Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
Ventura
County Bar Association
Honors
Super
Lawyer Rising Star, Los Angeles Magazine (2005 & 2007)
Patricia
Roberts Harris Doctoral Fellowship Award, University of California
Division of Analytical Chemistry Award, Utah State University
Publications and Presentations
"[2+2+1] Alkyne Cyclotrimerizations: A Metallacyclopentadiene Route to Fulvenes," Joseph M. O'Connor, Kristin Hiibner, Rich Merwin, Peter K. Gantzel, Bella S. Fong, Melanie Adams, and Arnold L. Rheingold, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (1997) 119, 3631.
"New Transition Metal Binding Modes for Creatinine: Molecular Structures of (CR=CRCR=CR)]Ir(C4H7N3)(PPh3)2Cl and [(CR=CRCR=CR)]Ir(C4H7N3)(PPh3)2Cl]BF4, (R = CO2CH3)," Joseph M. O'Connor, Kristin Hiibner, Polyhedron, (1997) 16, 2029.
"Formation of Fulvenes or Aryl Hydrides by Formal Alkyne Trimerization on an Ir(III) Center," Joseph M. O'Connor and Kristin Hiibner, presented at the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Symposium on Chemistry, UC San Diego, March 16, 1996.
"Formal Vinylidene Ligand Insertion into a Metal Halide Bond," Joseph M. O'Connor, Kristin Hiibner, Richard Merwin, and Lin Pu, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (1997) 117, 8861-8862.
"A New Metal-Mediated Cyclization: Conversion of a Metallacyclobutene and Alkyne Substrates to Cyclopentadiene Products," Joseph M. O'Connor, Bella S. Fong, Hong-Li Ji, and Kristin Hiibner, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (1995) 117, 8029-8030.
"Prop-2-ynyl Alcohol as a Precursor to the Ethenyl Ligand," Joseph M. O'Connor and Kristin Hiibner, J. Chem. Soc., Chem Commun, (1995) 1209-1210.
"The Reaction of [(h5-C5Me5)Fe (m-NO)]2," John L. Hubbard and Kristin Hiibner, presented at the American Chemical Society Regional Meeting, La Grande, Oregon, June 1991.