MAYA SKUBATCH
MAYA SKUBATCHPartner
IP Counseling & Patents
Intellectual Property
Energy & Clean Technology
Life Sciences
Maya Skubatch is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on patents and innovations counseling. Her practice covers patent prosecution, strategic patent counseling, investor- and company-side due diligence, and license agreements for clients in the life sciences, medical device, and clean fuel industries.
Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Maya was an associate in the intellectual property litigation practice at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP in Palo Alto. After completing her B.A., Maya was a research assistant at Genentech, where she helped clone and characterize novel genes associated with apoptosis.
In addition to English, Maya is fluent in Hebrew.
EDUCATION:
- J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
Intern, Affymetrix, Inc.; Extern in the chambers of the Honorable Judge Susan Illston, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California - B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Conducted research in the laboratories of Howard Hughes Professor Randy Scheckman and Professor Sung-Ho Kim
- Member, Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Member, San Francisco Bar Association
- Co-author, "A Novel Receptor for APO2L/Trail Contains a Truncated Death Domain," Current Biology, December 1, 1997
- Co-author, "TRAIL-Induced Apoptosis by a Family of Signaling and Decoy Receptors," Science 277, August 8, 1997
- Co-author, "Herpevirus Entry Mediator: A Member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor (TNFR) Family Interacts with Members of the Factors NF-kB and Adverse Possession," Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 296, May 30, 1997
- State Bar of California
- Supreme Court of California
- District Court for the Central District of California
- District Court for the Eastern District of California
- District Court for the Northern District of California
- District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
