About
Looking for credentials? Good thinking. Meet the members of our small but perfectly formed team.
Jane Calvert
BSc (Hons), PhD, LLB
PRINCIPAL
Jane is a registered New Zealand and Australian patent attorney and a practicing lawyer with a PhD in organic chemistry. In 2007 she was appointed Senior Director of Intellectual Property and Contracts at Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation in Boston, USA. Jane later went on to found In-Legal in 2010.
Jane has extensive experience in intellectual property matters and an impressive list of clients including a number of major biotechnology, functional food, medical device and pharmaceutical companies. She is equally comfortable working with venture capitalists and investors though.
- Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
- Registered Australian Patent Attorney
- Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
- PhD in organic chemistry
JULIE BALLANCE
BSc (Hons), LLB
PRINCIPAL
Julie has over 20 years’ experience as a lawyer and patent attorney representing a wide variety of clients including many well-known multinationals, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
Julie also served as President of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys and more recently as a member of Australia’s Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys. She has consistently been recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading life sciences practitioners, having been recommended in Who’s Who Legal – Life Sciences (2010), Managing Intellectual Property’s Patent Law Practitioners (2011) and IAM’s World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012).
- Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
- Registered Australian Patent Attorney
- Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
CARYN DEHORATIUS
BA, PhD, JD
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Caryn is a US qualified patent attorney and lawyer, with a PhD in molecular biology. She completed doctoral research at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, and postdoctoral research as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Caryn worked as a patent specialist in New York City for seven years, before moving to New Zealand. She has broad experience in patent practice in both countries, and in the management and development of patent portfolios. Her work involves a wide array of technologies, with particular emphasis on biologicals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, green technologies, agriculture, and functional foods.
- Registered US Patent Attorney
- PhD in molecular biology
