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Deborah M. H. Freeland
Associate, Carr & Ferrell LLP
Intellectual Property Practice Group
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Dr. Deborah M.H. Freeland is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Carr & Ferrell. Dr. Freeland’s practice focuses on comprehensive strategic intellectual property counseling, as well as the preparation and prosecution of patent applications. Her intellectual property practice has covered a wide variety of science-based industries, including clean energy technologies, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, hardware, materials and optoelectronics.

Prior to joining Carr & Ferrell, Dr. Freeland engaged in a broad intellectual property counseling and litigation practice with a major law firm, served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Women’s Studies at Oberlin College, as a Science Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and as a Graduate Fellow of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation.

Dr. Freeland earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, winning the Intellectual Property Writing Award as well as an American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellowship, and working as Research Assistant to Prof. John H. Merryman. She earned her Ph.D. from the Interdepartmental Program in Biophysics at Stanford University. Having developed an extensive background in biochemistry, including enzyme chemistry, RNA analysis, gene expression and membrane biophysics, she added expertise in physics, chemistry, and materials science, designing and synthesizing model polymers to study their fundamental phase behaviors at the molecular level. Combining techniques of laser spectroscopy and optoelectronics, mathematical modeling and computer simulation, she examined the very onset of phase separation in polymer composites. Her dissertation was supported by Fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Soroptimists International. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Biochemistry and Cognitive Science, and an Honorary Vassar Fellowship.

Dr. Freeland has published over a dozen scholarly articles in the fields of copyright law, physical and biological chemistry, optoelectronics and molecular biology. She has spoken on these subjects as well as on the nature of scientific models, the social responsibilities of scientists, and bioethics at domestic and international conferences and seminars.

Dr. Freeland is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

• Counseling and representing clean technology, software and bioscience client companies in various intellectual property matters before the USPTO

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Sine Qua Non of Copyright," Deborah M. Hussey, 51 J. Copyright Soc. of the USA 763 (2004).
• “Phase Separation in Binary and Ternary Polymer Composites Studied with Electronic Excitation Transport,” Deborah M. Hussey and M. D. Fayer, Macromolecules 32, 6638 (1999).
• “Monte Carlo Simulations of Electronic Excitation Transfer in Polymer Composites: Comparison to Theory,” Deborah M. Hussey, Stephan Matzinger, and M. D. Fayer, J. Chem. Phys. 109, 8708 (1998).
• “Fluorescent Probe Solubilization in the Head Group and Core Regions of Micelles: Fluorescence Lifetime and Orientational Relaxation Measurements,” Stephan Matzinger, Deborah M. Hussey, and M. D. Fayer, J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 7216 (1998).
• “Polystyrene Size Determination in Polystyrene and Polyvinylmethylether Using Electronic Excitation Transport,” Nathan A. Diachun, Deborah M. Hussey, and M. D. Fayer, J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 7112 (1998).
• “Electronic Excitation Transfer as a Probe of Phase Behavior in Polymer Composites,” Deborah M. Hussey, Lukas Keller, and M. D. Fayer, SPIE Proceedings: Advances in Fluorescence Sensing Technology III 2980, 446 (1997).
• “Theory of Electronic Excitation Transfer in Polymer Micelles and Lamellae,” D. M. Hussey, L. Keller, and M. D. Fayer, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 283, 173 (1996).
• “Chromophore-Rich Nanodomains in Bulk and Ultra Thin Film Polymer Blends,” A. H. Marcus, T. Morkved, H. Jaeger, S. A. Rice, D. M. Hussey, N. A. Diachun, and M. D. Fayer, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 283, 31 (1996).
• “Nanodomain Formation and Phase Separation in Polymer Blends,” Deborah M. Hussey, Lukas Keller, Nathan A. Diachun, A. H. Marcus, and M. D. Fayer, SPIE Proceedings: Fluorescence Detection IV 2705, 136 (1996).
• “Calculations of Electronic Excitation Transfer: Applications to Ordered Phases in Polymeric Materials,” L. Keller, D. M. Hussey, and M. D. Fayer, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 10257 (1996).
• “Nanodomain Formation in a Liquid Polymer Blend: The Initial Stages of Phase Separation,” A. H. Marcus, Deborah M. Hussey, Nathan A. Diachun, and M. D. Fayer, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 8189 (1995).
• “Dynamics in Polydimethylsiloxane: The Effect of Solute Polarity,” Nathan A. Diachun, A. H. Marcus, Deborah M. Hussey, and M. D. Fayer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 1027 (1994).
• “Sequence of Lamprey Vitellogenin: Implications for the Lipovitellin Crystal Structure,” William Sharrock, Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, Janet Gould, Julie Knott, Deborah Hussey, Jeffrey I. Gordon, and Leonard Banaszak, J. Mol. Biol. 226, 903 (1992).
• “Effects of Melittin on Molecular Dynamics and Calcium-ATPase Activity in Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes: Time-Resolved Optical Anisotropy,” John Voss, Woubalem Birmachu, Deborah M. Hussey, and David D. Thomas, Biochemistry 30, 7498 (1991).
• Acknowledgments in Nature: Structural Biology 1, 195 (1994), Evolution 44, 1164 (1990) and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 53, 257 (1987).