Margaret Bolce Brivanlou

Margaret Bolce Brivanlou, Ph.D.

Partner She / Her / Hers
New York

Peg Brivanlou is a licensed patent attorney and experienced IP counselor who represents biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and institutions in the spectrum of patent matters, including patent prosecution and portfolio development and management. Peg also advises investment funds and other clients on the intellectual property aspects of transactions, including licensing as well as transfer of technology and other assets.

Peg applies her skills and knowledge, including a doctorate in molecular biology, to represent clients in the biologics and small molecule therapeutics industries. She advises on immunotherapeutics, cell-based assays and therapies, genomics, bioinformatics, vaccines, and small molecule pharmaceuticals. Peg has experience developing patent portfolios, particularly for biologics, antibody therapeutics, and diagnostics. She also handles patent invalidity, freedom-to-operate analyses, and pre-litigation investigations, including for pre-Hatch-Waxman litigation involving generic drug claims.

Representative Experience 

Representative Matters

  • IP counsel for a private investment fund on significant royalty stream acquisitions and financings
  • Strategizing patent portfolio for gene therapy biotechnology company with clinical stage gene therapy product
  • Achieved highly favorable settlement in trade secret matter for private biotechnology company
  • Represents foreign pharmaceutical company in patent strategy on approved oncology therapeutic
  • Counsel for a private biotechnology company in developing a patent portfolio protecting immunotherapeutics

Professional Highlights

Recognition & Accomplishments

Chambers USA, Intellectual Property: Patent: Transactional (New York), 2025

LMG Life Sciences Star, 2019-2021; Patent Strategy & Management, 2022-2024

IAM Patent 1000 Guide, top patent lawyer, 2019-2025

Managing Intellectual Property, IP Star, 2018, 2020-2025; Top 250 Women in IP, 2022-2025

Publications

Co-author, “High Court's Superficial Analysis In Biosimilars Ruling,” Law360, June 15, 2017

Co-author, “Clarity from Chaos,” Intellectual Property Magazine, June 12, 2017

Credentials 

Education

Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1995)

University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1992)

Cornell University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1986)

Admissions

New York