Brian D. Gildea

Mr. Brian D.
Gildea is Executive Director at Boston University Office of Technology Development.
Mr. Gildea has more than 13 years of experience as an intellectual property attorney focusing on patent, trademark and trade secret matters in the areas of chemistry, biotechnology, life science, pharmaceuticals, pathogen detection, mass spectrometry and diagnostic assays.
For the past three years he has been in private practice of law, counseling clients in the life science, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry.
Before that, Mr. Gildea spent almost 6 years as a Senior Attorney at Applera Corporation.
He co-founded Boston Probes, Inc. in early 1996 and managed all aspects of the company’s legal requirements until it was acquired by Applera Corporation in 2001.
Mr. Gildea holds a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Suffolk University Law School (1996, cum laude), a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in bioorganic chemistry from Boston College (1988) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in chemistry from Stonehill College (1985).
Mr. Gildea is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (December 1996), is registered to practice as a Patent Attorney before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (April 1997) and is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (April, 2010).