Jie Lu

Jie Lu is a science law clerk in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice, where she supports patent litigation, patent opinions and due diligence matters. She is a registered patent agent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and her practice is limited to matters and proceedings for the USPTO. Jie holds a PhD in chemistry and brings deep technical experience in chemistry and materials science to the firm’s life sciences and advanced technology matters.

Since joining Goodwin in 2021, Jie has supported litigation teams in high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes. Her recent experience includes Hatch-Waxman litigation involving small-molecule and peptide therapies for oncology, metabolic disorders and central nervous system diseases. She has also contributed to IP due diligence tied to licensing, collaboration, and development transactions in the life sciences sector. Jie’s work includes technical analysis, prior art search, patent landscape evaluation, and case strategy development for complex pharmaceutical disputes.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Jie worked as a research scientist in the chemical and healthcare industry. Jie earned her PhD in Chemistry from New York University, concentrating on organic and polymer chemistry. Her doctoral research involved developing a core-shell micelle-supported dual catalyst nanoreactor for tandem catalysis. Taking advantage of the compartmentalization in the micelle structure, her research enabled two otherwise incompatible catalytic reactions with chiral selectivity to occur simultaneously in media single aqueous one-pot system.

Jie has published a number of scientific articles and has presented her research at regional and national scientific meetings and conferences. She is also a co-inventor of two US patents and one European patent.

Jie’s publications include:

• Lu, J.; Patwardhan, K.; Patel, M.; Carvalho, S.; Asgarzadeh, F., “Salt-Induced Pulsatile Release of Diltiazem with EUDRAGIT® RS,” 250^th AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition, Denver, Colorado, Nov 2016
• Lu, J.; Weck, M., “Micelle supported Ru-Porphyrin compounds: recoverable and water-soluble catalysts for efficient and mild oxidation of olefins with H₂O₂,” J. Mol. Cat. A Chem. 2016, 417, 122-125
• Lee, L.-C.; Lu, J.; Weck, M.; Jones, C. W., “Acid-Base Bifunctional Shell Cross-Linked Micelle Nanoreactor for One-Pot Tandem Reaction,” ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 784 (co-first author)
• Chun, B. J.; Lu, J.; Weck, M.; Jang, S. S., “Characterization of Molecular Association of Poly(2-oxazoline)s-based Micelles with Various Epoxides and Diols via the Flory-Huggins Theory: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 17, 29161
• Lu, J.; Dimroth, J.; Weck, M., “Compartmentalization of Incompatible Catalytic Transformations for Tandem Catalysis,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12984
• Lu, J.; ten Brummelhuis, N.; Weck, M., “Intramolecular folding of a triblock copolymer via quadrupole interaction between poly(styrene) and poly(pentafluorostyrene),” Chem. Comm. 2014, 50, 6225
• Liu, Y.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Y.; Lu, J.; Pionon III, V.; Weck, M., “Shell Cross-Linked Micelle-based Nanoreactors for the Substrate-Selective Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Epoxides,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14260