Professionals
Practice Areas
- Additive Manufacturing Practice
- Chemical and Material Sciences Practice
- Design Patents Practice
- Due Diligence in IP Acquisitions
- Energy Storage, Batteries, and Materials Practice
- Foreign & PCT Patent Filing
- International
- Invalidity Opinions
- Licensing
- Life Sciences Practice
- Mechanical Engineering Practice
- Non-infringement Opinions
- Patent Landscaping and Risk Analysis
- Patentability Opinions
- Patents
- Product Clearance
- Right to Practice Opinions
- Strategic IP Portfolio Development and Management
- Trade Secrets
- Trademark and Copyright Practice
- Transfers, Mergers, Acquisitions, Bankruptcies and Securitizations
- Utility, Design, and Plant Patent Filing with the USPTO
Technologies
- Aerospace & Aeronautics
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Energy
- Environmental Engineering
- Food Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Devices
- Metallurgy & Ceramics
- Nanotechnology
- Pharmaceuticals & Pharmaceutical Formulation
- Polymer & Materials Science
- Semiconductor Devices & Processing Methods
Admissions
- Registered as an Agent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2009
Education
- University of Connecticut, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 2002
- Widener University, B.S. Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, 1997
Teaching Positions
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Widener University, 2007-2008
Danielle Dougherty, Ph.D., has applied her technical expertise in a variety of fields to assist clients in important patent prosecution matters and intellectual property management.
Prior to joining Cantor Colburn, Danielle was a patent agent at Revlon, where she drafted patent applications, patent amendments (claims, specification, abstract), and responded to domestic and foreign office actions for chemical formulations involving polymeric materials. She collaborated closely with R&D personnel to perform comprehensive searches of patent databases for invalidity, patentability, landscape and freedom to operate for raw material ingredients, chemical formulations, mechanical tools, packaging and software; and analyzed patent opinions and other patent-related documents for full protection of company inventions. Further, she provided legal support for IP aspects of relevant business/transactional matters, including conducting IP due diligence in support of bankruptcy, licensing and acquisition opportunities and IP agreement support including review of licensing agreements. She prepared preliminary trademark opinions including searching trademark databases and drafting the opinions.
Danielle also has experience as a patent and research analyst focusing on patentability, freedom to operate, invalidity, IP Landscape, white space analysis, and competitive intelligence in areas of chemical engineering, polymer synthesis, coatings, polymer and composite processing and applications, ceramics, semiconductors, batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, photovoltaic cells, aerospace, additive manufacturing, medical device, organic and inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical, and mechanical engineering.
Experience Highlights
- Patent Agent, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2024-present
- Senior Patent Agent, Revlon, 2023-2024
- Patent Agent, Revlon, 2021-2023
- Chemistry and Life Sciences Analyst, Team Lead, Clarivate, 2020-2021
- Research Analyst, MDP Research, 2016-2020
- IP Management Consulting Services Consultant, Corning Incorporated, 2017-2020
- IP Management Consulting Services, Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters), 2016-2017
- Quality Assurance Lead; Patent Analyst, Landon IP, 2013-2015
- Lead IP Analyst, Thomson Reuters, 2011-2013
- Consultant Patent Analyst, MDP Research, 2009-2011
- Consultant Patent Analyst, Landon IP, 2007-2011
- Research Analyst, Nerac, 2003-2007
- Post Doctorate Research Associate, University of Connecticut, 2002-2003
- Process Engineer, Foamex International, 1994-1997
“Tuning Guidelines for a Dynamic Matrix Controller of Integrating (Non-Self Regulating) Processes,” D. Dougherty and D. J. Cooper, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 42, 1739 (2003).
“Building Multivariable Process Control Intuition Using Control Station,” D. Cooper, D. Dougherty and R. Rice, Chemical Engineering Education, 37, 100 (2003).
“A Practical Multiple Model Adaptive Strategy for Multivariable Model Predictive Control,” D. Dougherty and D. J. Cooper, Control Engineering Practice, 11, 649 (2003).
“A Practical Multiple Model Adaptive Strategy for Single-Loop MPC,” D. Dougherty and D. J. Cooper, Control Engineering Practice, 11, 141 (2003).
“A Multiple Model Adaptive Control Strategy for DMC,” D. Dougherty, J. Arbogast and D. J. Cooper, Proc. 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, 2497 (2003).
“A Multiple Model Adaptive Strategy for Multivariable Model Predictive Control,” D. Dougherty and D. J. Cooper, Paper presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2001. Reno, NV.
“Control Station: An Interactive Simulator for Process Control Education,” D. Cooper and D. Dougherty, International Journal of Engineering Education, 17, No. 3, 276 (2001).
“A Training Simulator for Computer-Aided Process Control Education,” D. Cooper and D. Dougherty, Chemical Engineering Education, 34, No. 3, 252 (2000).
“Enhancing Process Control Education with the Control Station Training Simulator,” D. Cooper and D. Dougherty, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 7, 203 (1999).
“Training Simulators Enhance Process Control Education,” D. J. Cooper and D. Fina, Proc. 1999 American Control Conference, IEEE Publications, NJ, 997 (1999).
Professional Affiliations
- Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
- Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
- Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering Honor Society)
