Rebecca M. Hale

Rebecca is a registered patent attorney with experience in patent litigation, biotechnology, and proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

She served as in-house counsel for Chiron Corporation from 2000 to 2006, which included leading the company’s Vaccines and Infectious Disease intellectual property group. In her in-house counsel role, she managed patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, and IP lifecycle strategy for vaccine products and related research, and advised on licensing and collaboration agreements supporting the vaccines business unit.

Rebecca is also an accomplished author. Her debut novel, How to Wash a Cat, became a New York Times bestseller after publication by Penguin, and she has authored multiple additional works of fiction.

She returned to intellectual property practice full time in 2018 and has since contributed to multiple editions of the PTAB Handbook, in addition to supporting PTAB proceedings, patent litigation, and trademark matters.

Rebecca received her B.S. in Biochemistry, cum laude, from Colorado State University and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. She is admitted in California and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.