Professionals

Edward T. Lentz
Special Counsel

Ed Lentz’s practice spans the full range of Intellectual Property law, including patent counseling, developing and implementing global patent strategies and product lifecycle management strategies, rendering legal opinions, overseeing patent preparation and prosecution, providing litigation support including expert opinions, and negotiating and drafting technology transactions.  Mr. Lentz represents a wide range of clients, including startups, universities, mid-size companies and large multinational companies in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, bioinfomatics, and related fields. He has written and spoken extensively on IP issues.

Mr. Lentz began his career with E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. as a staff patent attorney.  He later became SmithKline Beechum's (SB) first biotechnology patent attorney. At SB, he was initially responsible for developing and implementing patent strategies for protecting SB’s cloning and expression technologies, which lead to him becoming manager of SB's biotechnology patent group, and eventually to head SB's US-based IP groups in 1990. In this latter position, Mr. Lentz managed the North American Pharmaceutical Legal Operations, North America Consumer Healthcare Legal Operations, and Litigation groups at, now, GlaxoSmithKline. These groups were responsible for all FDA matters pertaining to the development, approval for marketing, sales & marketing, and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biologicals and over-the-counter healthcare products, all non-IP disputes in the U.S. and Canada including commercial, advertising, product liability, and employment litigation, and all U.S. government investigations. In 2001, Mr. Lentz joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius in their Philadelphia office as a Senior Counsel.

Education 

Villanova University, J.D.
Indiana University, M.A. in Life Sciences
Fordham University, B.A. in Biology

Bar Admissions 

US Patent & Trademark Office
State of New York
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Memberships 

Pennsylvania Bar Association