Overview

Having worked in pharmaceutical research, academia, and law, Jasmine De Cock, Ph.D., is experienced at every stage of an invention from ideation and development through patent prosecution and IP portfolio management. As a result, she offers clients unique insight into their inventions and how best to protect them.

Jasmine’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and counseling in the life sciences (including cancer biology, cellular and molecular biology immunology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics). She assists clients in obtaining patents claiming methods of recombinant protein manufacturing, nucleic acid vectors, recombinant nucleic acids and proteins, antibodies, methods of treatment, vaccines, gene therapies, CRISPR therapeutics, CAR T-cell therapies, immunotherapies, and screening and diagnostic assays and kits. Additionally, Jasmine manages U.S. and foreign patent portfolios, conducts due diligence studies, and drafts validity and infringement opinions. She is currently training to become a European patent attorney so that she will be registered to practice before the European Patent Office as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Jasmine is an active member in the firm’s Black legal staff affinity group (BlackFISH), the firm’s women’s initiative (EMPOWER), and the firm’s Asian legal staff affinity group (ALLIES) mentorship program. She is also a member of the firm’s Allyship group. Jasmine is regularly invited to speak on diversity issues in science and law, and nontraditional career paths at Northeastern University and MIT to undergraduate and graduate students.

Before and during law school, Jasmine worked as a technology specialist and then a patent agent at Fish in the Boston and New York offices, respectively. She also interned in Fish’s Boston office through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alumni Association Externship Program.

As a first-year student at Columbia Law School, Jasmine participated in the 1L Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Scholars Program. She was also the recipient of the 2020 NY IP Law Education Foundation (NYIPLEF) Diversity Scholarship.

She earned her Ph.D. in biology from Dr. Robert Weinberg’s laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT, where she investigated the role of inflammation in the awakening of dormant disseminated cancer cells. While earning her undergraduate degree at King’s College London (U.K.), Jasmine was an industrial placement student at Pfizer in Sandwich, U.K., where she worked in a multidisciplinary group on high-throughput assay development.

Professional associations

  • New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) – current co-chair of Young Lawyers Committee
  • US Bar - EPO Liaison Council – current Delegate of NYIPLA
  • ChIPs New York Chapter & Munich Chapter
  • Women in IP e.V.
  • IP and ME