Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Terry Wright is a Registered Patent Attorney and a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group. His practice focuses on patent-related aspects of intellectual property, including patent drafting, patent prosecution and counseling clients on infringement, validity and patentability.

Contributing to his practice is a background in life sciences and experience with academic research in the areas of cardiovascular biology, molecular and cellular biology, pharmacology, and biotechnology.

Recent Assignments

• Counsels companies and Technology Transfer and Licensing Offices of various Universities regarding strategies for protecting patent-based intellectual property

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

• "International Patent Prosecution and PCT Practice," Kentucky BioAlliance Intellectual Property Forum, Louisville, Ky., June 2011
• "Protecting Intellectual Property," Kauffman FastTrac Tech Venture Program, University of Louisville, May 2011
• Co-moderator, "Biotechnology Patent Prosecution," Association of University Technology Managers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev., March 2011
• "Intellectual Property Protection in a University Setting," Marshall University, August 2010 and January 2011
• "Patent Law Ethics: The Changing Landscape of Materiality," Louisville Bar Association, Louisville, Ky., June 2010
• "Innovation and the Patentability of Natural Phenomena," Second Annual Conference in Innovation and Communications Law, Louisville, Ky., August 2009
• Co-moderator, "The Developing Landscape of Biotechnology Patent Law," The Association of University Technology Managers Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla., February 2009
• "Judicial Patent Reform: Implications for Biotechnology," Tennessee Biotechnology Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, October 2008
• Patent Law 101 for the Health Care Industry," Louisville Bar Association, Louisville, Ky., May 2008
• Brown M, McGuinness M, Wright T, Ren X, Wang Y, Boivin GP, Hahn H, Feldman AM, Jones WK, "Cardiac-specific blockade of NF-kB in cardiac pathophysiology: differences between acute and chronic stimuli in vivo," Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 289(1):H466-76 (2005)
• "The Role of NF-kB in Myocardial Ischemia Reperfusion Injury," Keystone Symposia, Keystone, Colo., March 2002
• "Ablation of Myocardial NF-kB signaling in a Mourse Model of TNF-a overexpression," Keystone Symposia, Keystone, Colo., March 2002

Before Stites & Harbison

Before joining Stites & Harbison, Terry worked as a scientific research associate in laboratories at both the University of Cincinnati and the University of Louisville.