Biography
I have been an instructor for Northeastern’s Regulatory Affairs graduate program for over ten years. As an instructor, I developed the course “Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Law: Topics and Cases,” for online and “Biomedical Intellectual Property Management Strategy: Patents and Trade Secrets.” I am a Registered Patent Attorney working for an International IP Corporation and as the sole proprietor of my own intellectual property law firm, Y.L. KELLY, ESQ in Clinton, CT.
I double majored at Vermont Law School, G=graduating with a JD and a Master’s in Environmental Law. I was an dditor of the Vermont Law Review; Senior Managing Editor of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law; and a Vermont Law Dean’s Fellow where I taught 1L Legal Writing to first-year law students.
I have a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and industry work experience composed of patent prosecution, patent litigation, patent examining, regulatory legal work, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food technology and military service.