Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of attorney Tina McKeon to the firm’s nationally-recognized Health & Life Sciences Team. Dr. McKeon joins Kilpatrick Townsend’s Atlanta office as Partner. Three patent agents, Kimberlynn Davis, Lizette Fernandez, and Tiffany Thomas, all of whom have Ph.D.s, are joining the firm along with Dr. McKeon.
“With her well-established reputation within the biotechnology community and her extensive background in highly-complex research and litigation, Tina is an excellent addition to our Health & Life Sciences Team,” said Jamie Graham, Kilpatrick Townsend Health & Life Sciences Team Co-Leader. “She will be instrumental as we continue to grow our deep bench of biotechnology expertise in Atlanta and across the firm.”
While Dr. McKeon has diverse experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, she focuses her practice in the life sciences. Her biotechnology experience includes neuroscience, immunology, therapeutic antibodies, oncolytic virus therapy, stem cell technology and recombinant technologies in a variety of areas including food and food supplements. Dr. McKeon has worked extensively with medical technology and pharmaceuticals, including cardiac technology, imaging and diagnostics as well as small molecule pharmaceuticals and biologics. She has also worked with leading corporations, universities and research institutions to protect their technology innovations.
Dr. McKeon is frequently recognized for her intellectual property expertise. She was named Atlanta’s “Lawyer of the Year” for Patent Law for 2012 by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Dr. McKeon has also been selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 editions of The Best Lawyers in America®. She has been recognized by Chambers and Partners annually since 2009. Dr. McKeon was voted one of Atlanta Magazine’s Georgia Super Lawyers from 2008 – 2011, and one of Georgia Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite” in 2004 and 2007.
Dr. McKeon is a member of a number of bioscience and medical device organizations. She is the current Chair-Elect of the Intellectual Property Section of the Georgia Bar, and she serves as a member of the Board of Directors of both Georgia Bio and SEBIO. Dr. McKeon has taught since 2005 in the TI:GER® Program, a collaboration between various Georgia Tech colleges and Emory University School of Law focusing on technology commercialization in a multidisciplinary context.
Dr. McKeon joins the firm from McKeon, Meunier, Carlin & Curfman. Prior to that, she was a member of the Atlanta office of Fish & Richardson.
Dr. McKeon earned her Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, her J.D. from Emory University with Distinction, and her B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
