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The Science IP Research
Team has a unique and powerful combination of scientific expertise
and online search experience. Each Team member is a scientist with
many years of experience researching the scientific literature and
patent documentation.
The Research
Team is backed by a highly trained and educated Technical
Advisory Team.
Following
are background details for each Research Team member:
Don
Stickel
Kerry
Stanley
G.
Kenneth Ostrum
Natalia
Nekrasova
David S. Saari
Mike
Mullican
Sharilyn Woods
Scott Hertzog
Kenneth L. Hoppe
Elaine Cheeseman
Peter
Mattei
Ken
Cutshall
DON STICKEL – Don
is a Senior Scientist. He joined CAS in August 1982 as Search
Coordinator
for the original
CAS Search Service. He conducts searches dealing with chemistry
and the life sciences, including chemical structure searches
and
intellectual property related questions.
Don has been doing searches
for more that 25 years. He has a BS degree in Biology and an MS
degree in Library and Information Science, both from Western Michigan
University. From 1977-1982 he worked as Assistant Life Sciences
Librarian at Purdue University. One of his primary responsibilities
at Purdue was doing literature searches for the School of Agriculture
and the Department of Biology.
Don is a member of the
Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG) and a member of the
American Chemical Society – Chemical Information Division.
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KERRY STANLEY -
Kerry is a Senior Searcher in the Science IP division. Prior
to joining
CAS, Kerry worked for 22 years in the pharmaceutical industry where
he managed the chemical, biomedical and patent search activities
at McNeil Pharmaceutical, Wyeth and Sterling Winthrop. Kerry focuses
on comprehensive chemical and pharmaceutical patent retrieval
and
analysis in support of patentability, freedom to operate, validity,
infringement, due diligence and competitor analysis activities
within
the legal and corporate environment.
Prior to joining the Science IP division, Kerry was responsible
for training patent searchers around the world. Kerry has worked
with several major pharmaceutical companies to develop effective
search protocol standards. He has made literally hundreds of presentations
on search strategy development and results analysis. He has been
a lead author for the STN Patent Forum series of training sessions,
and is recognized both internally and externally as a "CAS
patent expert".
Kerry obtained a MS degree in physical organic chemistry from Iowa
State University. He has
co-authored 7 scientific publications and is the inventor of 3 US
issued patents.
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KENNETH OSTRUM – Dr. “O” has been associated
with CAS for over 34 years. He is widely recognized as an expert
in polymer indexing and searching, and has prepared and presented
dozens of public and private seminars and customized presentations
on polymer searching using a wide variety of databases. Among his
many achievements, Dr. O has also recently provided expert assistance
in a project to link CAS Registry Numbers®
for monomer-based records to the corresponding CAS Registry Numbers
for the structural repeating unit (SRU) records.
Ken has a Ph.D. from
Northwestern University in Organic Chemistry, and spent 4 years
in polymer research in both government and industrial laboratories
before joining CAS.
He has been involved
with the design, testing, implementation, documentation, and training
for most of the robust searching features now available for the
more than 200 files on STN®
International.
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NATALIA
NEKRASOVA– Natalia joined CAS in January 2001 as
a Technical Information Specialist in the CAS Search Service. Natalia
fulfills requests for scientific and patent information in the chemistry
and life sciences areas. Natalia is also called upon to perform
chemical structure and sequence searches, as well as searches for
property data, chemical suppliers, and regulatory compliance.
Natalia received a Master
of Science degree in biology from Leningrad State University. After
graduation she worked for ten years in environmental biology as
a nature protection agent and as a researcher. She has been involved
in environmental studies, generation of reports and scientific publications,
staff training, presentations at scientific meetings, and literature
searches. She went on to earn a Master of Library and Information
Science degree in 2000 from Kent State University. For two years
she was employed as a Library Assistant at Byrd Polar Research Center's
Library at OSU. At OSU her responsibilities included online information
retrieval, collection maintenance, current awareness profiling and
providing general patron assistance.
DAVID S. SAARI – David joined the Science
IP division as a Senior Scientist in June 2005. He has been involved
in the acquisition, distribution, organization, and use of scientific
and patent information for more than 30 years. Prior to joining
CAS, he worked for American Cyanamid Company, American Home Products
(Wyeth), BASF, Miles Laboratories (Bayer), Schering-Plough, and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
David has a Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from the
University of California, Davis. He is registered to practice before
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as an Agent, Reg. No. 29,239.
He has held academic appointments at the University of California
at Davis and Notre Dame University in Indiana.
David is a member of the American Chemical Society Divisions of
Chemical Information (CINF) and Chemistry and the Law (CHAL), the
ACS Committee on Patents and Related Matters, and the Patent Information
Users Group (PIUG).
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MIKE MULLICAN
- Mike is a Senior
Searcher in the Science IP division and a registered US patent
agent (#55,473).
Prior to joining CAS, he worked as an independent patent information
specialist. Mike performs chemical and pharmaceutical searches
in support of intellectual property and competitive intelligence
related issues.
Mike has 18 years experience as a medicinal chemist at both small
and large pharmaceutical companies. As a chemistry project leader,
he led efforts in the discovery of three clinical candidates in
global research collaborations and played a key role on in developing
IP strategy.
Mike received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at the University
of Kansas. He has co-authored 20+ papers in peer-reviewed journals
and is a co-inventor on over 35+ issued patents.
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SHARILYN WOODS - Sharilyn has been searching
the patent and technical literature for 16 years. She conducts searches
dealing with chemistry and the life
sciences, including chemical structure searches. Prior to working with
Science IP, Sharilyn worked at The Dow Chemical Company for 14 years
performing in-depth technical and patent information retrieval and
analysis, including
current awareness.
Sharilyn has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s
of Library and Information Science with a specialization in Chemical Information,
both from Indiana University.
Sharilyn is a member of the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG).
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SCOTT HERTZOG - Scott searched the patent and technical literature as a chemical patent examiner in the fields of cleaning and pigment compositions throughout the nineties. He took a sabbatical and earned an MA in Counseling, then came back to searching in 2003 as a Technical Information Specialist in EIC 2800 at the USPTO, helping examiners search the semiconductor, inkjet printer, sound production and abatement, and physics arts. In 2005, Scott took a break to stay at home with his newborn daughter prior to joining Science IP in June 2006.
Scott earned a BS in Chemistry from University of Arizona, where he did honors research with Regents Professor Victor J. Hruby on enkephalin analogues and earned an MA in Counseling from Western Seminary.
Scott is a member of the American Chemical Society Divisions of Chemical Information (CINF), Chemistry and the Law (CHAL), Biochemical Technology (BIOT), the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology subdivision of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (I&EC), and the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG).
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KENNETH L. HOPPE - Ken is a Senior Searcher in the Science IP division. Prior to joining CAS, Ken worked for 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer, where he conducted molecular biology research in drug discovery for six years and then provided patent and scientific information research for in-house patent attorneys for six years. Prior to his pharmaceutical industry experience, Ken worked in numerous academic molecular biology research laboratories at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital Boston, and the University of Connecticut Health Center’s Department of Biochemistry.
Ken focuses on comprehensive biological and biosequence patent retrieval and analysis in support of patentability, freedom to operate, validity, infringement, and due diligence activities within the legal and corporate environment.
Ken obtained a MS degree in a biological science from Oklahoma State University. He has co-authored 8 scientific publications, two as first author.
Ken is a member of the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) and has been a member of the Sponsorship Committee for the National Meeting since 2004.
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ELAINE CHEESEMAN - Elaine joined the Science IP team in January, 2007. She has many years of experience in searching chemical and biomedical patents and literature; and pharmaceutical competitor information.
Elaine has a Ph.D. degree from the City University of New York in synthetic organic chemistry and did postdoctoral research at Temple University. She worked at GlaxoSmithKline for over 15 years in the Information Management department. She did extensive chemical prior art searching and analysis; working closely with program team leaders, scientists, and patent attorneys based both in the US and abroad. Also as a member of the Search Desk staff, she performed searches of any kind as requested by the scientists and managers; often of a chemical or biomedical nature. Elaine was also involved in evaluating, implementing, and training on desktop information products for both the information staff and/or scientists.
Elaine is a member of the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) and a regular attendee of the PIUG annual meetings. She is also a longtime member of the American Chemical Society (Chemical Information Division and local section).
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PETER MATTEI -
Peter joined the Science IP team as a Senior Searcher in November
2007. Prior to joining CAS, he worked at Bristol-Myers
Squibb in their Information and Knowledge Integration group where
he supported R&D by providing patent and scientific
information in the areas of chemistry and pharmaceuticals.
Together with his time at the DuPont Pharmaceutical
Company, Peter has over 15 years of experience in searching and
support ing scientific and chemical information within the
pharmaceutical industry.
Upon obtaining a MS degree in Organic Chemistry from
Temple University, Peter worked as a synthetic chemist at the Fox
Chase Cancer Center where he made a variety compounds including
radioisotope labeled materials. Contrasting his experience
at Fox Chase, he then took a position as a process chemist at
Sybron Chemicals where he researched industrial scale
Friedel-Crafts alkylations, sulfonation reactions and polymer
chemistry. While his interests eventually returned him to
pha rmaceutical research, Peter recalls some unique experiences
at Sybron like handling sulfur trioxide and running an alkylation
on a 2000 gallon scale. When offered a position with the
pharmaceuticals division of the DuPont company in 1984, Peter
resumed organic synthesis in medicinal chemistry and worked on
the discovery of new central nervous system agents. During
his 18 years with DuPont, he became interested in the
then-emerging technology of computer-based chemical and
scientific info rmation and subsequently began a new career in
this area.
Still a chemist at heart, Peter has taught various
chemistry courses as an adjunct professor for over 20 years and,
aside from his love of teaching, this activity provides some
opportunities for a little ‘hands on’ chemistry.
Peter has been a member of the American Chemical Society
for 24 years (Chemical Information Division and local section)
and is also a member of the Patent Information Users Group
(PIUG).
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KEN CUTSHALL
- Ken joined CAS in July 2008 as a Senior Searcher in
the ScienceIP Search Service. Ken has over sixteen years of
searching experience, specializing in electrochemical storage
systems, defense technologies, and consumer home products.
He has worked for organizations such as EnerDel, Procter &
Gamble, Kellogg Company, and Sandia National Laboratories.
Ken has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a
Master’s of Library and Information Science with a
specialization in Chemical Information, both from Indiana
University. Additionally Ken has a Master of Business
Administration from Northern Kentucky University
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