~ Detail-focused Chemist eager to contribute consultative, project leadership, and analytical talents toward supporting a dynamic organization in achieving business goals and objectives. ~

 

 

         Solid experience in legal writing, patent application examination and classification, and evaluating intellectual property for patentability.

         Exceptional research and development experience; proficiency in designing experiments, steering compliance, administering quality control to ensure accuracy of data, and maintaining lab instruments and equipment.

         Dependable, ethical and extremely productive; reliably ensure and perform a thorough and quality job in all endeavors.

         Exemplary organizational, interpersonal, decision-making, planning, and communication skills; excel in delivering highly technical and complex lectures to a variety of audiences.

         Ability to establish effective and cohesive working relationships with all levels of an organization.

         Well-honed multi-tasking abilities; gracefully balance competing priorities.

         Proven capacity to process a high volume of work without sacrificing quality.

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Harrisonburg/Alexandria, VA, 2007 to 2009

Patent Examiner           (2008 to 2009)

         Scrutinized patent applications to ensure strict compliance with statues (35 U.S.C.), administrative rules (37 C.F.R.), case law, and Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP).

         Diligently judged applications technical soundness, enablement and description, and held accountability for determining patentability of applications.

         Assigned to polymer chemistry art based on advanced knowledge and expertise, specifically art unit 1796, classes 523-524.

         Extensively utilized patent search tools and databases such as EAST, WEST, WIPO, esp@cnet and STN, as well as workflow manager eDAN.

         Successfully passed Examiner Certification exam (internal equivalent to USPTO Registration Exam or Patent Bar Exam.

         Exercised significant critical thinking abilities in contributing to and supporting legal writing tasks and patent prosecution.

 

Patent Classifier           (2007 to 2008)

• Independently classified approximately 25 patents per day for Centuria Corporation/SI International.

         Received cross-training in Tech Centers 1600, 1700, and 2800.

         Developed proficiency in use of patent search tools (pubWEST database), workflow manager (PCA), and other tools such as PAIR and FirstGov.

         Applied dynamic leadership talents toward delivering training in core patent classification curriculum, spearheading several projects, organizing technical lecture series, and presenting informative seminars on organic and polymer chemistry.

         Precisely established and instituted combinatorial chemistry method and standard operating procedure to streamline associated patent classification efforts.

         Resourcefully developed and introduced TC1700 wiki to enable classifiers access to new tools, significantly increasing production and quality.

 

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Professional Experience continued                                                             James M. Taylor, II ~ Page 2 of 2

 

SC Johnson Wax, (Adecco Staffing),  Racine, WI, 2004 to 2005

Visiting Scientist

• Actively participated in investigating and enhancing effectiveness of Pledge Duster Plus products.
• Theorized additives for dusters to improve pickup efficiency, designed and executed experiments, and analyzed, interpreted, and documented findings.
• Proficiently performed spectroscopic analysis using SEM (scanning electron microscope).

 

Abbott Pharmaceuticals, (Manpower Professional), North Chicago, IL, 2004

Chemist I

• Strategically assessed and qualified chromatographic systems to be used in a cGMP (current good manufacturing practices) environment.
• Sampled and accurately recorded bulk active drug purity levels using HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography), GC (gas chromatography), and MS (mass spectrometry) techniques.

 

 

Master of Science, Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2007

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 2004

 

 

Core Patent Classification Instructor, Centuria Corp. / SI International, Harrisonburg, VA, 2007 to 2008

Physical and Theoretical Laboratory, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2005 and 2006

 

 

Patent Examination Corps, USPTO                                                                                              2008 C 2009

Charter Co-Chair, Social Committee, USPTO Project, SI International                                              2007 C 2008

Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute                                                                                  2005 C 2006

Member, Order of Gownsmen (i.e., Sewanee s Academic Honor Society)                                        2003 C 2004

Assistant Proctor, Sewanee: The University of the South                                                                2001 C 2002

Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, Lambda Chi Alpha, Iota Nu Zeta                                       2001 C 2004

High Gamma (Secretary), Lambda Chi Alpha, Iota Nu Zeta                                                             2001 C 2002

Active Member, Lambda Chi Alpha, Iota Nu Zeta                                                                            2001 C 2004

 

 

Schwartz, Ralph; Wietfeldt, John R.; Chaffee, Timothy L.; Taylor, James W. II; Hoadley, David A.  Amphiphile surface treatment for a cleaning pad for improved dust adhesion.

                   Pre-Grant Patent Publication (Date)                         Patent Issued (Date)

Europe:                   WO 2007/081985 A3 (19 July 2007)                          Pending Examination

United States:          US 2 xxx-xxx-xxxx  A1 (27 August 2006)                  Pending Examination

Taylor, James W. II.  The Deconvolution of Molecular Weight Distributions as Obtained by Size-Exclusion Chromatography.  M.Sc. Thesis in Chemistry.  The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia (accepted 2007).

Konkolewicz, Dominik; Taylor, James W. II; Castignolles, Patrice; Gray-Weale, Angus; Gilbert, Robert G.  Toward a More General Solution to the Band Broadening Problem in Size Separation of Polymers, Macromolecules 2007, 40, 3477-3487.

Taylor, James W. II; Castignolles, Patrice; Gilbert, Robert G.  The Deconvolution of Molecular Weight Distributions, Australasian Polymer Symposium, Rotorua, NZ (2006).