Lawyer Bio : Lawrence J. Carroll, Ph.D.
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Lawrence J. Carroll, Ph.D.
"Butch"
Washington, DC
Butch Carroll is a registered patent attorney and member of the Chemical/Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Team of Womble Carlyle’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications for biotechnology inventions and preparing patentability, infringement, validity, freedom to use and inventorship opinions. Butch was a Patent Examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and also the former Patent Manager of Life Technologies.
Contact
- (202) 857-4451
- (202) 261-0082
Professional Activities
Admitted to the bar 2001, Maryland. Admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Admitted to the bar, District of Columbia, 2012.
Education
B.S., 1986, Biochemistry, University of Maryland; Ph.D., 1991, Biochemistry, University of Maryland; J.D., 2001, Georgetown University Law Center; Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, 1991-1994.
Prior Legal Experience
Associate, Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, LLP, 2004-2008; Associate, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC, 2002-2004; Registered Patent Agent / Associate, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, 2000-2002; Registered Patent Agent, Venable, Baetjer, Howard and Civiletti, L.L.P. (formerly Spencer & Frank), 1998-1999; Registered Patent Agent, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., 1996-1998; Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1994-1996.
Prior Business Experience
Patent Manager, Life Technologies, 1999-2000.
Publications
X. Hu, E.J. Wolffe, A.S. Weisberg, L.J. Carroll, and B. Moss. (1998) "Repression of the A8L Gene, Encoding the Early Transcription Factor 82-Kilodalton Subunit, Inhibits Morphogenesis of Vaccinia Virions," Journal of Virology, 72, 104.
X. Hu, L.J. Carroll, E.J. Wolffe, and B. Moss. (1996) "De novo Synthesis of the Early Transcription Factor 70-kilodalton Subunit is Required for Morphogenesis of Vaccinia Virus," Virology, 70, 7669.
O. Herzberg, C.C. Chen, G. Kapadia, M. McGuire, L.J. Carroll, S.J. Noh, and D. Dunaway-Mariano. (1996) "Swiveling-domain Mechanism for Enzymatic Phosphotransfer Between Remote Reaction Sites," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A., 93, 2652.
Lawrence J. Carroll, Yuan Xu, Sara H. Thrall, Brian M. Martin, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1994) "Substrate Binding Domains in Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase," Biochemistry, 33, 1134.
Sara Thrall, Andrew F. Mehl, Lawrence Carroll, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1993) "Characterization of the Covalent Enzyme Intermediates Formed During Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase Catalysis," Biochemistry, 32, 1803.
S.J. Britz and L.J. Carroll, II. (1993) "Absence of Red-Light Enhancement of Phototropism in Pea Seedlings at Limiting Irradiances of Blue Light," Plant Growth Regulation, 12, 281.
Lawrence J. Carroll, Christopher M. Smith, Raymond Chollet, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1990) "Determination of the Catalytic Pathway of C4-leaf Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase from Maize," Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters, 274, 178.
David J. Pocalyko, Lawrence J. Carroll, Brian M. Martin, Patricia C. Babbitt, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1990) "Analysis of the Sequence Homologies in Plant and Bacterial Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase, Enzyme I of the Bacterial PEP: Sugar Phosphotransferase System and other PEP Utilizing Enzymes. Identification of Potential Catalytic and Regulatory Motifs," Biochemistry, 29, 10757.
Lawrence J. Carroll, Andrew F. Mehl, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1989) "The Mode of Triple Phosphoryl Group Transfer in Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase Catalysis. Demonstration of the Intermediacy of Pyrophosphorylated and Phosphorylated Enzyme Species," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 111, 5965.
Lawrence J. Carroll, Andrew F. Mehl, David J. Pocalyko, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano. (1989) "Chemical Mechanism of Pyruvate Phosphate Dikinase," Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, 2, 998.
Areas of Proficiency
- Intellectual Property
- Patent
