Jeremy M. Stipkala, Ph.D., J.D.

Jeremy.Stipkala@StipkalaLaw.com
Phone: 843.580.9057
North Charleston, SC

Jeremy M. Stipkala specializes in intellectual property legal services relating to chemistry, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials science, polymers, and simple mechanical inventions, and registers trademarks and copyrights.  He also manages Stipkala LLC, a growing intellectual property law firm headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Dr. Stipkala has spent more than a dozen years helping clients protect their intellectual property.  He started his career in patent law with the leading intellectual property law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C.  Then he launched Stipkala LLC as a solo practice, and has grown it into a firm founded on a service-centered paradigm.  Dr. Stipkala has prosecuted over sixty U.S. patent applications to issuance, participated in several major litigations, registered several trademarks and copyrights, and provided numerous opinions at the intersection of patent law and chemistry. 

Dr. Stipkala obtained his B.S. cum Laude in Chemistry from Juniata College and Leeds University, England, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D., both in Chemistry, from The Johns Hopkins University.  His Ph.D. thesis, entitled Dye-Sensitization of Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Electrodes, presents solar energy research driven by a life-long desire to help preserve the environment for comfortable human habitation.  Attending classes at night, Dr. Stipkala acquired his J.D. with High Honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he finished in the top 8% of his class (day and evening division).  Dr. Stipkala has taught Patent Prosecution as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law.

Dr. Stipkala is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina; the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; and he is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Awards

• Order of the Coif, The George Washington University Law School.
• American Bar Association/Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law, The George Washington University Law School.
• Who’s Who: American Law Students, 22nd Edition.
• Accounts of Chemical Research Graduate Prize, The Johns Hopkins University.
• Brumbaugh Science Prize, Juniata College.
• Dow Chemical Corporation Scholarship, Juniata College.
• CRC Handbook Chemistry Prize, Juniata College
• Baker Peace Scholarship, Juniata College.
• Eagle Scout.

Jeremy M. Stipkala, Overcoming Obviousness When Patenting Nanotechnology Inventions, 23 Nature Biotechnology 677 (2005).

Eric W. Adcock, Jeremy M. Stipkala & Allen R. Jensen, Congressional Clues to the Festo Dispute: Where Does § 112 Stand?, 9 Intell. Prop. Today 47 (2002).

Selected Scientific Publications

John A. Moss, John C. Yang, Jeremy M. Stipkala, Xingu Wen, Carlo A. Bignozzi, Gerald J. Meyer & Thomas J. Meyer, Sensitization and Stabilization of TiO2 Photoanodes with Electropolymerized Overlayer Films of Ruthenium and Zinc Polypyridyl Complexes: A Stable Aqueous Photoelectrochemical Cell, 43 Inorganic Chemistry 1784 (2004).

Craig A. Kelly, David W. Thompson, Fereshteh Farzad, Jeremy M. Stipkala & Gerald J. Meyer, Cation-Controlled Interfacial Charge Injection in Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2, 15 Langmuir 7047 (1999).

John A. Moss, Jeremy M. Stipkala, John C. Yang, Carlo A. Bignozzi, Gerald J. Meyer, Thomas J. Meyer, Xingu Wen & Richard W. Linton, Sensitization of Nanocrystalline TiO2 by Electropolymerized Thin Films, 10 Chemistry Materials 1748 (1998).

Jeremy M. Stipkala, Felix N. Castellano, Todd A. Heimer, Craig A. Kelly, Kenneth J. T. Livi & Gerald J. Meyer, Light-Induced Charge Separation at Sensitized Sol-Gel Processed Semiconductors, 9 Chemistry Materials 2341 (1997).

Todd A. Heimer, Samuel T. D’Arcangelis, Fereshteh Farzad, Jeremy M. Stipkala & Gerald J. Meyer, An Acetylacetonate-Based Semiconductor-Sensitizer Linkage, 35 Inorganic Chemistry 5319 (1996).

Fei Cao, Gerko Oskam, Peter C. Searson, Jeremy M. Stipkala, Todd A. Heimer, Fereshteh Farzad & Gerald J. Meyer, Electrical and Optical Properties of Porous Nanocrystalline TiO2 Films, 99 J. Physical Chemistry 11974 (1995).

Felix N. Castellano, Jeremy M. Stipkala, Lee A. Friedman & Gerald J. Meyer, Spectroscopic and Excited-State Properties of Titanium Dioxide Gels, 6 Chemistry Materials 2123 (1994).