Nicholas Prairie is an associate in the Litigation Department, and a member of the Life Sciences Patent practice. He works with life science and pharmaceutical clients of all sizes in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Nicholas was an associate at another Boston firm, where he worked with corporate clients of all sizes. He drafted and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications, and assisted in district court litigation and Inter Parte Reviews. Nicholas’s technical expertise includes small molecules, peptides, and protein conjugates.
Before law school, he worked as a chemist at Ipsen (Biomeasure, Milford, MA) where he synthesized a variety of pharmaceutically interesting compounds including; small molecules, peptides, peptide-drug conjugates, proteins, and protein-polymer conjugates. As a graduate student his research focused on natural product synthesis.