Patent attorney Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. and trademark and copyright attorney Michelle Ciotola, partners at Cantor Colburn, co-wrote the article, the Seven Deadly Sins of IP. 

Partner Tina Dorr wrote the article, "Stories from Inside the Patent Process," published in the Association for Women in Science Spring 2021 magazine.

Cantor Colburn’s Women’s Initiative hosted the Hartford Area AIPLA Women in IP Global Networking Event on April 7, 2022 at Parkville Market in Hartford.

Cantor Colburn is proud to announce that seven of our attorneys have been recognized as 2022 Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. Best Lawyers are Michael Cantor, Phil Colburn, Curt Krechevsky, David Rodrigues, Ph.D. and Mike Rye and Best Lawyers One to Watch are Ali Caless and Tina Dorr, Ph.D.

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., Cantor Colburn partner, will be honored by the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA) at its annual New Partners & Counsel Virtual Celebration on May 21, 2021.

Volunteers from The Georgia IP Alliance® (GIPA ) and the Atlanta Chapter of the Chiefs in IP (ChIPs) have come together this week to teach intellectual property to Kindergartners at the Midtown International School (MIS) in celebration of World IP Day on April 26, 2021. ChIPs Atlanta Chapter Board member Tina Dorr helped to organize the event.

Partner Tina Dorr has been named to Law360’s 2021 Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board. The editorial advisory board provides feedback on Law360's coverage and expert insight on how best to shape future coverage.

Join a conversation about how in science can become involved in the patenting process and the challenges and importance of moving the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation. On February 25, at 12 PM ET, the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) presents an online webinar moderated by Cantor Colburn partner and patent attorney Dr. Tina Dorr, Ph.D., and featuring Dr. Susan Hausdorff, Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Emily Kinser, 2015 IBM Master Inventor and current Laboratory Manager of the Inorganics, Ceramics, & Applied Physics Cluster in the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory. Register here.

Effective 2021, Cantor Colburn's new Partners are Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Ali Hayter, Jared Howenstine, Karen LeCuyer, Ph.D., Duane Minley and Roberta Pelletier. New Counsel are Alison Caless and Michael Powell. 

Cantor Colburn attorneys Michael A. Cantor, Philmore H. Colburn II, Michael J. Rye, Curtis Krechevsky, David Rodrigues, Ph.D., Tina Dorr, Ph.D. and George A. Pelletier, Jr. have been named Best Lawyers® by U.S. News 2021.

Cantor Colburn LLP, the fourth largest patent law firm in the U.S., welcomes the new year with the elevation of James Wimpe to its partnership. Also effective January 1, 2019, Associates Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Alicia Hayter, Jared Howenstine, David Kincaid, Matteo Pedini, and Wanli Wu will be promoted to Counsel. Jessica Zimberlin Eastman, Ph.D., will be promoted to Senior Patent Agent.

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. participated in the Georgia Tech Women’s Alumni Network (GT WAN) fall community service event. The group collected and organized items for Georgia Tech’s Klemis Kitchen, Georgia Tech’s campus food pantry that provides free meals to college students in need, and  Campus Closet, Georgia Tech’s campus clothing service that provides free business attire to students for job interviews or formal business events.

The 2022 Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Annual Meeting takes place September 18-20, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.

Cantor Colburn partners Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., Tanmay Dharmadhikari, and Michelle Ciotola will attend the Driving Diversity in Law & Leadership conference. 

Partner Tina Dorr, Ph.D. will be a panelist for the program, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Implicit Bias in IP and Promoting Bias-Reducing Strategies, presented at ACI’s 20th Global Summit on Life Sciences Patents on June 2-3, 2022 in New York City.

Pharmaceutical Litigation Chair Steve Coyle will be a panelist at the Paragraph IV Disputes Conference in New York City, April 26-27, 2022.  

Cantor Colburn is pleased to host the AIPLA's Women in IP Law Virtual Global Networking event on April 7, 2022. The event, Power Happy Hour: Finding Balance, Building Community, will feature a short discussion around the important issue for women of feeling empowered and engaging in community. 

Partner Tina Dorr will attend the ABA Bar Leadership Institute in Chicago. This conference is intended to guide bar leaders in their roles as stewards of their organizations, in which programming focuses on bar governance, communication, and leadership. 

The IPOwners Spring Summit™ is March 9-10, 2022 in San Diego, California. Partner Tina Dorr, who chairs two IPO committees, will attend. Partner Tina Dorr will moderate a panel on “Building a World-Class IP Department: Best Practices for Talent Management.” 

Cantor Colburn Partner Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., GAPABA President-Elect, will attend the NAPABA Convention 2021.

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. will participate in a panel on November 17, 2021 at Georgia Tech, hosted by the National Security Innovation Network. The moderator is NSIN program director Patrick Reynolds and the other panelists are John Sears, Founder and Managing Partner of Innovators Legal and Nathanael McClury, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Vice President of R&D at SIRPant Immunotherapeutics, Inc.

Pharmaceutical Litigation Chair Steve Coyle will be a panelist at the Paragraph IV Disputes Conference in New York City, November 9-10, 2021.  Also attending the conference are Michael Cantor, Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., and Nick Geiger.

Partner Tina Dorr is part of a panel discussing networking for lawyers, Moving and Shaking in the Legal World, presented by the South Asian Bar Association - Georgia (SABA-GA), on October 28, 2021, taking place over Zoom. This presentation is part of SABA-GA's Pathways to Success series.

Cantor Colburn is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 7th Annual GAPABA (Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association) Gala on September 30, 2021 at the Georgia Aquarium. 

GAPABA Women's Leadership Network (WLN) presents, "PUT YOUR OXYGEN MASK ON FIRST! The Importance of  Mental & Physical Wellness," a virtual webinar discussion and presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Cantor Colburn partner Tina Dorr, Ph.D., co-chair of the WLN, co-hosts the event with experts in exercise, nutrition, and mental health.

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Diverse Inventors subcommittee of the Women in IP Committee is proud to launch a new and updated Law Firm Toolkit that assists legal professionals in law firms to team with their corporate and university clients to increase the diversity in in the innovation ecosphere of the their clients.  Cantor Colburn's Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., partner, and Liam Evans, patent agent, members of the IPO Diversity & Inclusion Committee, will be part of an IPO webinar on August 4, 2021 that will walk through the updated toolkit.

Partner Tina Dorr, Ph.D. will speak at ACI’s 19th Global Summit on Life Sciences Patents on July 21-22, 2021. Tina will speak on Navigating the Current Obviousness Landscape: Integrating the Latest Developments in Obviousness-Type Double Patenting and Inherency into Your Patent Prosecution Approach, with Laura Wine, Assistant General Counsel, IP, at Arena Pharmaceuticals and Kathleen Kahler Fonda, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent and Legal Administration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The 4th Annual IPO Spring Summit is April 20-21, 2021. The conference is designed for mid to senior level IP attorneys with topics directly relevant to in-house counsel and provides outside counsel information that will enhance relationship building and productivity with their corporate clients. This year's Summit features North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis and Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Daren Tang. 

The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) presents a conversation with Dr. Tina Dorr, Partner and patent attorney at Cantor Colburn, Dr. Susan Hausdorff, Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Emily Kinser, 2015 IBM Master Inventor and current Laboratory Manager of the Inorganics, Ceramics, & Applied Physics Cluster in the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory, about the patenting process and the challenges and importance of moving the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

Cantor Colburn is hosting an AIPLA women's networking and bourbon tasting event via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 6-7 PM EST, “Building Bonds Over Bourbon: Conversations with IP Colleagues.” Our program will enhance networking skills: we’ll have a bourbon tasting, learn and practice techniques for building relationships, and discuss IP issues in breakout groups. 

IPO has decided that the 2020 Annual Meeting will take place virtually on September 21, 2020 on a secure and engaging virtual platform.

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., Counsel and member of the IPO U.S. Patent Office Practice Committee and IPO Women in IP Law Committee, will attend the IP Owners Spring Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 4-5, 2020. 

Tina Dorr will attend the Georgia Bar's 8th Annual IP Gala, presented by its IP Section, taking place on Friday, February 6, 2020, at the Georgia Aquarium.

As Chair of the Outreach Committee of the Atlanta chapter of ChIPs, Chiefs in Intellectual Property, Counsel Tina Dorr organized the December 9, 2019 community outreach event at the Rise Against Hunger Warehouse.

On December 5, 2019 Tina Dorr attended the Georgia Asian Pacific American (GAPABA) Annual Holiday Party, presented by The Coca-Cola Company. Tina co-chairs GAPABA's Women's Leadership Network Committee.

Cantor Colburn is sponsoring the Georgia Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA) Women’s Leadership Network 2019 Annual Signature Dinner on November 13, 2019 and GAPABA member Tina Dorr is attending. 

Cantor Colburn, a Premier Sponsor of the Georgia State University College of Law Intellectual Property Program, is pleased to support The Annual Corporate IP Institute®, presented by the university's College of Law and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and the Atlanta Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section. 

The Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) 47th Annual Meeting takes place September 24-26, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Tina Dorr will attend the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association Women's Leadership Workshop in Atlanta on July 27, 2019.  

Anne Maxwell, Ph.D., Esq. and Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. will attend the Women Leaders in Life Sciences Law conference in Boston on July 25-26, 2019. 

Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. will speak at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) public hearing on the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Act of 2018 or “SUCCESS Act” on June 3, 2019 at the USPTO's Silicon Valley regional office in San Jose, California. This public hearing is an opportunity to contribute oral comments concerning the participation of women, minorities, and veterans in entrepreneurship activities and the patent system. She is representing the Intellectual Property Owners Association's Women in IP Committee, of which she is Secretary.

Tina Dorr, Ph.D. will be honored at the 2019 GAPABA (Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association) New Partners and Counsel Luncheon on April 17, 2019 in Atlanta.

Cantor Colburn attorney Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq. will attend the Georgia Intellectual Property Association (GIPA) Corporate IP Roundtable®. Leslie Slavich, General Counsel for Spanx, Inc., will give the keynote speech.

Phil Colburn, Co-Managing Partner, and Tina Dorr, Ph.D., Esq., Counsel and member of the IPO U.S. Patent Office Practice Committee and IPO Women in IP Law Committee, will attend the IP Owners Spring Summit in Austin, Texas on March 6-7, 2019.  

Cantor Colburn is pleased to sponsor the Georgia Bar's 7th Annual IP Gala, presented by its IP Section, taking place on Friday, February 22 at the Georgia Aquarium.

The IP Section of the State Bar of Georgia will meet for its annual IP Holiday Party on December 6, 2018 at the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta. The IP Section will be collecting donations to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Cantor Colburn, a Premier Sponsor of the Georgia State University College of Law Intellectual Property Program, is pleased to support The Annual Corporate IP Institute®, presented by the university's College of Law and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and the Atlanta Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section. This collaboration is for the educational benefit of corporations interested in maximizing the value of their intellectual property assets.  The annual two-day annual event is held at the Georgia State University Student Center, October 22-23, 2018.

Cantor Colburn patent agent Tina Dorr, Ph.D., presented “From the Bench to the Bar: Patent Law Careers for Scientists” to biology and computer science Ph.D. students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia on April 16, 2014. Dr. Dorr's Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry is from Georgia Tech, where she was formerly a research assistant.