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Mary Jo Boldingh
Special Counsel

Mary Jo Boldingh is special counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is a member of the firm's IP Litigation and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practices.

Ms. Boldingh's practice focuses on intellectual property, including patent litigation, validity and infringement opinions, and patent prosecution. Her experience includes work in chemical technologies such as catalysis, metal oxide absorbents, polymers, biotech processes, and infant formula, and in other technologies such as telecommunications, Internet-based marketing systems, and handheld digital assistants. She has been involved in numerous prominent cases in a variety of industries and has a special interest in efficient dispute resolution.

Prior to graduation from law school, Ms. Boldingh worked as a laboratory chemist at the UOP Research Center in the automotive catalysis area and as a computational chemistry consultant at both G.D. Searle & Co. R&D and at AlliedSignal Engineered Materials Research Center, focusing on drug design and fuel properties, respectively.

Ms. Boldingh received her A.B. in chemistry from Loyola University in 1981, her M.S. in chemistry from Northwestern University in 1985 and her J.D. with honors from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1991.

Ms. Boldingh is a member of the Richard Linn American Inn of Court, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and the American Bar Association. In addition, she is a member of the board of directors of the Chicago-based social service agency Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc., and serves on the board of trustees of the Science and Arts Academy, a school for gifted children in Des Plaines, Ill.

Ms. Boldingh is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and the American Bar Association, and a past member of the Richard Linn American Inn of Court. She is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


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