Glen K. Thurston, Ph.D.

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Glen K. Thurston, Ph.D.

Overview

Glen Thurston is an intellectual property attorney in Leydig’s Boulder office whose practice focuses on patent prosecution. His technical areas in patent prosecution include the chemical arts, pharmaceuticals and biosimilars.

Dr. Thurston attended the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where he served as an Executive Editor of the BYU Law Review, assisted clients with patent matters in the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, and interned in the BYU Technology Transfer Office. Before law school, Dr. Thurston received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In that role, he investigated the electronic and vibronic structures of small oligothiophenes using Slow Electron Velocity-Map Imaging (SEVI) anion photoelectron spectroscopy.

Education

  • Brigham Young University, J.D., 2022
    • BYU Law Review, Executive Editor
    • J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Chapter President
    • Student Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
    • Federalist Society, Member
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2019
    • Dissertation: “Investigating α-oligothiophenes of chain lengths 3 to 5 using anion photoelectron spectroscopy”
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in Chemistry, 2016
  • Brigham Young University, B.S. in Chemistry, 2014
    • Student Chapter of American Chemical Society, Treasurer

Admissions

  • Colorado State Bar
  • Utah State Bar
  • Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honors

  • BYU Law Review, Executive Editor

Professional Affiliations

  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (2019-2020)

Articles, Publications & Lectures

  • “Pharma Patents: New Insights to Satisfy Written Description for Claimed Ranges,” Co-Author, Outsourced Pharma (April 11, 2022)
  • “Use of Research Tools May Expose Companies to Patent Infringement Claims,” Co-Author, IPWatchdog (January 25, 2022)
  • “Vibrationally Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Oligothiophene Radical Anions,” Co-Author, The Journal of Chemical Physics (October 2019)
  • “Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Anthracene and Fluoranthene Radical Anions,” Co-Author, The Journal of Chemical Physics (June 2018)
  • “A Multi-Plate Velocity-Map Imaging Design for High-Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy,” Co-Author, The Journal of Chemical Physics (September 2017)
  • “The Effects of Added Hydrogen on a Helium Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jet Ambient Desorption/Ionization Source,” Co-Author, Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (February 2013)

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Education

  • Brigham Young University, J.D., 2022
  • BYU Law Review, Executive Editor
  • J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Chapter President
  • Student Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
  • Federalist Society, Member
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2019
  • Dissertation: “Investigating α-oligothiophenes of chain lengths 3 to 5 using anion photoelectron spectroscopy”
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in Chemistry, 2016
  • Brigham Young University, B.S. in Chemistry, 2014
  • Student Chapter of American Chemical Society, Treasurer

Admissions

  • Colorado State Bar
  • Utah State Bar
  • Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office