Laba Karki Associate

Laba Karki is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Intellectual Property Practice. Dr. Karki concentrates his practice in the chemical and life science practice groups and focuses on diverse aspects of patent issues including prosecution, due diligence analysis, counseling, and opinions. Dr. Karki has assisted with the procurement and prosecution of pharmaceutical, polymer, chemical, metallurgical, spectroscopic, semiconductor, and business-method inventions including appeals to the Patent Board and the Federal Circuit. He has assisted and rendered opinions regarding infringement, validity, freedom to operate (FTO), and venture capital financing for public and private offerings for both small bio-tech and large pharmaceutical companies. He has also assisted with a Hatch-Waxman litigation involving an antipsychotic drug and served as a resident consultant on infringement suits involving both industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Karki has significant research experience in several areas such as heme-proteins, charge-transfer in inorganic metal complexes and nano-crystals, optical and magnetic spectroscopy, plant photosynthetic membrane protein, organic synthesis of herbicides, and cardiac cell aging. He has authored several peer-reviewed research publications.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Dr. Karki was a patent attorney at a small patent boutique in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dr. Karki received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 2005. While in law school, he worked as a technical advisor and later as a law clerk at other leading law firms in Washington, D.C. He completed his P.D.F. in biophysics from Yale University in 2000; his Ph.D. in physical/analytical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1997; and his B.S., cum laude with honors in chemistry, from Davidson College in 1992.

Dr. Karki is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.