Overview

Having worked in pharmaceutical research, academia, and law, Jasmine De Cock, Ph.D., is experienced at every stage of an invention from ideation and development through patent prosecution and IP portfolio management. As a result, she offers clients unique insight into their inventions and how best to protect them.

Jasmine’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and counseling in the life sciences (including cancer biology, cellular and molecular biology immunology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics). She assists clients in obtaining patents claiming methods of recombinant protein manufacturing, nucleic acid vectors, recombinant nucleic acids and proteins, antibodies, methods of treatment, vaccines, gene therapies, CRISPR therapeutics, CAR T-cell therapies, immunotherapies, and screening and diagnostic assays and kits. Additionally, Jasmine manages U.S. and foreign patent portfolios, conducts due diligence studies, and drafts validity and infringement opinions. She is currently training to become a European patent attorney so that she will be registered to practice before the European Patent Office as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

In 2024, Jasmine was appointed by the president of the European Patent Office (EPO) to join the Standing Advisory Committee Before the EPO (SACEPO) Working Party on Quality for the Americas as a representative of the US Bar – EPO liaison council. The SACEPO Working Party on Quality serves as a platform for active engagement with the EPO to improve the quality of the patent grant process based on user input. Jasmine is also an active member in Fish & Richardson's Black legal staff affinity group (BlackFISH), women’s initiative (EMPOWER), Asian legal staff affinity group (ALLIES) mentorship program, and Allyship affinity group. She is regularly invited to speak on diversity issues in science and law, and nontraditional career paths at Northeastern University and MIT to undergraduate and graduate students.

Before and during law school, Jasmine worked as a technology specialist and then a patent agent at Fish in the Boston and New York offices, respectively. She also interned in Fish’s Boston office through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association Externship Program.

As a first-year student at Columbia Law School, Jasmine participated in the 1L Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Scholars Program. She was also the recipient of the 2020 NY IP Law Education Foundation Diversity Scholarship.

She earned her Ph.D. in biology from Dr. Robert Weinberg’s laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT, where she investigated the role of inflammation in the awakening of dormant disseminated cancer cells. While earning her undergraduate degree at King’s College London (U.K.), Jasmine was an industrial placement student at Pfizer in Sandwich, U.K., where she worked in a multidisciplinary group on high-throughput assay development.

Professional associations

  • European Patent Office, Standing Advisory Committee Before the EPO (SACEPO), Working Party on Quality for the Americas (2024-present)

  • US Bar-EPO Liaison Council, current Delegate of NYIPLA (2023-present)
  • New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA), Co-Chair of Young Lawyers Committee (2021-2024)

  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Member of the IP Practice in Europe Committee

  • ChIPs New York Chapter & Munich Chapter
  • Women in IP e.V.
  • IP and ME