John-Paul F. Cherry, Ph.D.
Patent Agent
Intellectual Property Law
3040 Post Oak Boulevard
Suite 1500
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713.623.4844
Fax: 713.623.4846
Direct Line: 713.577.4828
Email: jpcherry@pattersonsheridan.com
Profile
John-Paul Cherry joined the firm in 2002 and has practiced patent prosecution with an emphasis on semiconductor processing technologies, photovoltaic technologies, nanotechnologies, catalyst chemistry, metal-organic chemistry including organic and inorganic, drilling fluid and oilfield technology, as well as biotechnologies including medical devices, drugs and drug delivery. John-Paul has a portfolio of authored publications and presentations at professional conferences, as well as earned multiple patents. While at UCLA, John-Paul synthesized organometallic precursors that he used to conduct chemical vapor deposition experiments and also practiced forensic science while developing chemical extraction techniques for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of the Scientific Services Bureau. As a synthetic chemist researcher at MIT, John-Paul studied small molecule activation by utilizing an assortment of original metal-organic complexes. During the four years at MIT, John-Paul earned his PhD as well as formed two start-up companies as an entrepreneur. Instead of continuing his enjoyment of chemistry research and becoming a university professor, John-Paul decided to combine his knowledge of science and technology with his business and IP experiences and went to work for an IP boutique immediately after graduate school.
Education
- J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2007
- Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
- B.S., Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
Practice Areas
Admissions & Memberships
- Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- American Chemical Society
- Materials Research Society
- MIT Enterprise Forum
Publications/Speeches/Presentations
- Portability of the RNNMo(3+) Core: Application to the Synthesis of Dinitrogen-derived Trialkoxymolybdenum Organodiazenido Complexes Cherry, J.P.F.; Diaconescu, P. and Cummins, C.C.; Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83(4), 302-307.
- Transformations of MN groups based on V, Nb, Mo, or U Cummins, C.C.; Tsai, Y.C.; Diaconescu, P.L.; Cherry, J.P.F.; Figueroa, J.; Brask, J.; ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE ACS 222: INORG, Part 1 AUG 26, 2001 222nd ACS National Meeting in Chicago, IL, August 26-30, 2001, (INOR-002).
- Terminal Phosphide and Dinitrogen Molybdenum Compounds Obtained from Pnictide-Bridged Precursors Cherry, J.P.F.; Stephens, F.; Johnson, M.J.A.; Diaconescu, P.L. and Cummins, C.C. Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40(27), 6860-6862.
- "Controlling the Functionality of Mo(III) with Di- and Tri-atomic Molecules by Varying Ligand Sterics" Cherry, J.P.F. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts - May 16, 2001 Naval Air Warfare Center - China Lake, California - April 10, 2001
- On the Origin of Selective Nitrous Oxide N-N Bond Cleavage by Three-Coordinate Molybdenum(III) Complexes Cherry, J.P.F.; Johnson, A.R.; Baraldo, L.M.; Tsai, Y.C.; Cummins, C.C.; Kryatou, S.U.; Rybak-Akimoua, E.V.; Capps, K.B.; Hoff, C.D.; Haar, C.M.; Nolan, S.P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7271-7286.
- Mechanism of Selective Nitrous Oxide N-N Bond Cleavage by Three-Coordinate Molybdenum(III) Complexes: Experiment vs. Theory Cherry, J.P.F.; Cummins, C.C. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE ACS 220: 514 INORG, AUG 24 2000. 220th ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C., August 24-28, 2000 (INORG 0514)
- A Niobium Terminal Nitride Prepared by Reductive Cleavage of a Heterobimetallic Mo/Nb Dinitrogen Complex Mindiola, D.M.; Meyer, K.; Cherry, J.P.F.; Baker, T.; Cummins, C.C. Organometallics 2000, 19, 1622-1624.
- Redox-Cataylzed Binding of Dinitrogen by Molybdenum N-tert-Hydrocarbylanilide Complexes: Implications of Dinitrogen Functionalization and Reductive Cleavage Peters, J.C.; Cherry, J.P.F.; Thomas, J.C.; Baraldo, L.M.; Mindiola, D.J.; Davis, W.M.; Cummins, C.C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 10053-10066.
- Reductive Trapping of Dinitrogen by Molybdenum tris-Anilide to form a Dinitrogen Anion and Chemistries Thereof Cherry, J. P. F.; Peters, J.C.; Cummins, C.C. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE ACS 218: U881 Part 1 AUG 22 1999. 218th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999 (INORG 0560)
- On the Reduction of Nitrous Oxide and Related Small Molecules by Low Coordinate Metal Complexes Cummins, C.C.; Cherry, J.P.F.; Mindiola, D.M.; Nolan, S.; Haar, C.M.; Johnson, A.R.; Hoff, C.; Capps, K.B.; Akimova, E.R.; Kryatov, S.V. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE ACS 218: 248-INORG, Part 1 AUG 22 1999. 218th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999 (INORG 0248)
