Paul Dietze is of counsel in the Intellectual Property practice group and has thirteen years of experience in all aspects of client counseling and patent prosecution, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical arts. He works with clients in preparing non-infringement and/or invalidity opinions, portfolio analysis, and development and implementation of strategic patent programs.
Dr. Dietze's experience in patent prosecution involves both domestic and foreign prosecution including drafting applications, responding to office actions, interviewing examiners, inventorship determinations, preparing patent term extensions, reissue proceedings, re-examination proceedings, preparing appeal briefs, and arguing appeals at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
Additionally, Dr. Dietze assists clients in transactional matters involving due diligence analysis and patent licensing. He has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in particular, preparing opinions clearing generic versions of pharmaceutical products and preparing and prosecuting patent applications directed to new chemical compounds and formulations for pharmaceutical uses.
Prior to becoming a patent attorney Dr. Dietze was a chemistry professor who taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate chemistry courses and supervised a funded research group. He also spent more than 4 years at the United States Food and Drug Administration as a review chemist in the Division of Oncologic Drug Products. Dr. Dietze was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Brandeis University Graduate Department of Biochemistry from August 1984 to September 1987.
Selected Publications and Speeches
- Presentation at the University of Texas School of Law Continuing Legal Education, January 2011, "Conducting an Examiner Interview: When, Where, and Why."
- Co-editor for the U.S. chapter of International Pharmaceutical Law and Practice, edited by A. Zohl, Lexis Nexis, Matthew Bender (2005-2007).
- Author, "Nucleophilic Substitution and Solvolysis of Simple Secondary Carbon Substrates." A review article published in Advances in Carbocation Chemistry, JAI Press Inc., London, England, (1995).
- Primary Author, "The Mechanism for the General Base Catalyzed Solvolysis of Silyl Ethers," J. Org. Chem. 59, 5010 (1994).
- Primary Author, "Catalysis of the Trifluoroethanolysis of Dimethylphenylphenoxysilane," J. Org. Chem. 59, 2523 (1994).
- Co-Author, "Evidence for a Concerted Mechanism in the Solvolysis of Phenyldimethylsilyl Ethers." J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 115, 10722 (1993).
- Author, "Concerning the Mechanism for Bifunctional Catalysis in the Methanolysis of Methoxymethylphenoxyphenyl Silane," J. Org. Chem. 58, 5653 (1993).
- Author, "Buffer Catalysis of the Trifluoroethanolysis of Phenoxydimethylphenylsilane," J. Org. Chem. 57, 6843 (1992).
- Author, "The Reaction of Carboxylate Nucleophiles with tert-Butyldimethylphenoxysilanes in Dimethylformamide," J. Org. Chem. 57, 1042 (1992).
- Primary Author, "The General Acid Catalyzed Trifluoroethanolysis of Ethoxydimethylphenylsilane," Tett. Lett. 23, 307 (1991).
- Primary Author, "Oxygen Scrambling and Stereochemistry During the Trifluoroethanolysis of Optically Active 2-Butyl-4-Bromobenzenesulfonate," J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 112, 5224 (1990).
- Primary Author, "Solvolysis of 2-Propyl-4-Nitrobenzenesulfonate in 1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol," J. Org. Chem. 54, 3317 (1989).
- Primary Author, "Changes of Selectivity in the Reactions of Substituted 4-Nitrobenzyl Sulfonates with Nucleophilic Reagents," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 111, 5880 (1989).
- Primary Author, "General Base Catalysis of Nucleophilic Substitution at Carbon," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 111, 340 (1989).
- Primary Author, "Oxygen Exchange into 2-Butanol and the Hydration of 1-Butene do not Proceed through a Common Carbocation Intermediate," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 109, 2057 (1987).
- Primary Author, "Swain-Scott Correlations for Reactions of Nucleophilic Reagents and Solvents with Secondary Substrates,"J. Amer.Chem. Soc. 108, 4549 (1986).
- Co-Author, "Nucleophilic Substitution at Centers other than Carbon: Reaction at the Chlorine of N-chloroacetanilide with Triethylamine as the Nucleophile," J. Org. Chem. 49, 5225 (1984).
- Primary Author, "Nucleophilic Substitution at Centers other than Carbon. 2. Reaction at the Chlorine of N-chloroacetanilide with Substituted Phenoxides," J. Org. Chem. 49, 2492 (1984).
Professional Leadership
- Referee of research papers for Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, and Journal of Chemical Education.
- Reviewer of research proposals for the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, the National Science Foundation, and the Israel Science Foundation.
- Chair, Physical Organic Chemistry Section B, 208th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., August 1994.
- Chair, Physical Organic Chemistry Section B, 204th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., August 1992.