
Speakers
Panel of Invited Speakers

DANIEL RIVALTI, PHD
Patent Agent, Finnigan
As a registered patent agent, Daniel has extensive experience in handling a wide variety of patent matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in several international jurisdictions, including drafting and prosecuting patent applications; navigating reissue and post-grant proceedings; performing patentability, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate analyses; advising clients on prosecution strategies; drafting and filing provisional, utility, design, and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications; responding to office actions; and conducting examiner interviews.
Daniel has extensive research experience. He completed his graduate research at McGill University with Jim Gleason, after which he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Florida State University and Virginia Commonwealth University on a research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Daniel also served as a research assistant professor in the Chemical Development department at Boehringer-Ingelheim.

