Bashir M.S. Ali, Ph.D.

Dr. Ali's practice focuses on patent law matters for clients primarily in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications and preparing opinions on validity, non-infringement and freedom-to-operate.

• CALI Award in Patent Law and Business Taxation
• Harold N. Glassman Award for the most distinguished dissertation in natural sciences at Georgetown University (1995)

• "Molecular Conformations and Crystal Packing Properties of five 4-Alkyl-N-(4-cyanophenyl) piperidines. A Surprising Dependence Upon Alkyl Chain Length," Acta Cryst. 1995, B51, 823-35 (with M. Rapta, G. B. Jameson and R. G. Weiss)
• "Liquid-Crystalline Behavior from Binary Mixtures of Non-Mesogenic 4-Alkyl-N-(p-cyanophenyl) piperidines," Liquid Crystals 1994, 17, 605-15 (with R. G. Weiss)
• "Orientational Ordering of Liquid-Crystalline 4-Alkyl-N-(p-cyanophenyl) piperidines by 2H and 13C NMR Spectroscopies," J. Phys. Chem. 1994, 98, 1213-16 (with C. L. Khedrapal, and R. G. Weiss)
• "Effect of Aggregation and Mesomorphic Order on the Photophysical Properties of 4-Alkyl-N-(p-cyanophenyl) piperidines. Molecules Capable of Forming Intramolecular Charge Transfer States," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 6111-20 (with R. G. Weiss)
• "Dimethylaminobenzonitrile: Structure of the Lower Temperature Phase. Comparison with the Higher Temperature Phase and Correlation with Optical Spectroscopic Properties," Acta Cryst. 1994, B50, 703-7 (with G. B. Jameson and R. G. Weiss)

• American Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association

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