Vice President | Director of Intellectual Property
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jnickla@unmc.edu
Jason Nickla is Vice President and Director of Intellectual Property at UNeMed Corporation. As a registered patent attorney, Mr. Nickla is responsible for protecting new inventions and drafting contracts for transferring intellectual property rights to industry partners for commercialization of those technologies. He graduated from Creighton University with a B.S. in biology, and from Creighton University School of Law with a J.D. He also secured an L.L.M. in International Intellectual Property Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Mr. Nickla began his legal career in Chicago law firms, specializing in patent prosecution and providing PCT application patentability opinions to the USPTO.
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