MANAGING DIRECTOR
Gary L. Baker, M.T., J.D. joined the Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C., in November of 2001. In 2011, Mr. Baker became the President and Managing Director of Quine IP Law. He has 18 years of industrial laboratory research and manufacturing experience. Over 15 years, Mr. Baker worked at Cetus/Chiron Corporation in instrumentation, analysis and protein purification processes. Before that, he worked at IGB Products building DNA synthesizers and practicing hands on molecular biology and cell biology. Before the biotech bug bit him, Mr. Baker was also a registered Medical Technologist at Stanford Medical Center. He received his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. His medical technology internship was at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and he briefly studied genetics at San Francisco State University. Mr. Baker received his B.S. in microbiology from Montana State University in Bozeman. Mr. Baker is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice as an attorney in the State of California. Mr. Baker had a small private legal practice in intellectual property and civil law prior to joining the firm.
Please see Mr. Baker's biopatent website for a variety of interesting presentations on patenting, technology, art and mechanics: BIOPATENT
OF COUNSEL
Stephen J. LeBlanc, J.D.
Mr. LeBlanc joined the Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C., as Of Counsel in November 2000. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced as an associate attorney at Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP, and at Majestic, Parsons, Siebert and Hsue, LLP. Mr. LeBlanc specializes in patent drafting and prosecution, strategic patent planning, and client counseling. He has extensive engineering and patent experience in digital electronics, information processing, database design, computer and microprocessor architecture, and advanced digital communication technologies. He has drafted patents in a range of specific technology areas, including Ethernet, SONET, ATM, TCP/IP, wireless modems, streaming media, XML, RTSP, SMIL, 3D scanning, speech recognition, database analysis and data-mining, network security and deception systems, bioinformatics and data compression technologies. Mr. LeBlanc holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, where he received a Dean's Scholarship, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. LeBlanc was admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1992 and is registered to practice as an attorney in California.
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEYS
Paul B. Littlepage, J.D., M.S.
Mr. Littlepage joined the Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C., in July 2000. His practice emphasizes biotechnology patent prosecution. His undergraduate degrees are in Microbiology and Physiology both from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (magna cum laude, 1990). He received his M.S. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis in 1992 and his J.D. from the University of California at Davis (Order of the Coif) in 1997. He has worked at the Center for Population Biology at the University of California at Davis and at The Sapiro Law Firm in San Francisco. He is registered to practice as an attorney in the state of California.
PATENT AGENTS
Monicia Elrod-Erickson, Ph.D.
Dr. Elrod-Erickson joined the Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C., in April, 2002. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998) and has postdoctoral training from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Dr. Elrod-Erickson has a B.S. with high honors in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, 1991) and has worked as a scientific curator for Incyte Genomics, Inc. Her research experience includes genetic analysis of innate immunity in Drosophila and x-ray crystallographic and biochemical analysis of DNA-binding proteins. She is registered as a patent agent to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Christina Onufryk, Ph.D.
Dr. Onufryk joined the Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P. C., in July, 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, where she was a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow from 1996 - 2001. Her research at UCSF focused on the role of Sigma-E-transcribed lipoproteins in maintaining the barrier function of the outer membrane in E. coli. Dr. Onufryk earned a B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she was elected to MIT's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1995. She is a registered before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.
