Leydig, Voit & Mayer Welcomes Two Technical Advisors

CHICAGO (August 19, 2010) - Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd., a full-service intellectual property law firm, welcomes Travis B. Gasa and Colin Wright as technical advisors.

Travis Gasa joins the firm's Chicago office. He received a B.S. in Chemistry, high distinction, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2008. He recently received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University. His research focused on the synthesis and study of complex functional organic compounds for use in applications including artificial light-harvesting systems, molecular electronics, and metal-organic frameworks. At Leydig, he will concentrate on patent prosecution with an emphasis in pharmaceutical and chemical technologies.

Colin Wright joins the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude, from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 2003. While working as a patent agent in New York and in Frankfurt, Germany, he received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in thermal fluid sciences, from the Union Graduate College in Schenectady, in 2009. His work will focus primarily on global patent prosecution in the area of mechanical technologies and systems.

About Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
Leydig, Voit & Mayer has a singular focus: the practice of intellectual property law. For more than a century, the firm has assisted clients - from large corporations to individual inventors - with intellectual property litigation, counseling, licensing, and prosecution services worldwide. The firm’s expertise includes all areas of intellectual property law in technical areas that are critical to business today, including pharmaceuticals, industrial processing chemicals, electronics, software, computers, manufacturing and machine design, biotech and business methods. Leydig prides itself on its ability to meet the most demanding intellectual property needs of its clients.

Leydig, Voit & Mayer consistently provides high-quality legal services, which has earned accolades from peers and clients. For seven consecutive years, Leydig has appeared in Fortune Magazine as one of “The Go-To Law Firms® of the World’s Leading Companies” for the representation of business and industry leaders.
Founded in 1893, Leydig, Voit & Mayer has offices in Chicago, Frankfurt am Main, Rockford, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

More information about the firm is available on its website at http://www.leydig.com.

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