Jorge Goldstein
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Jorge Goldstein

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I was born in Argentina and raised in a family of European émigrés. I came to the U.S. to study,
received my Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard and then my law degree from George Washington
University. It is this diverse mix of cultures, languages, and education that has defined my life as
a scientist-attorney and my work as a writer. In the early 1980s I co-founded an intellectual
property law firm in Washington DC, where, for forty-six years, I practiced law in the area of
biotechnology patents. Many consider me one of the pioneers in the field, having won important
law precedents, and written many articles at the edge of science and law. I am the author of U.S.
Biotechnology Patent Law, a book on the legal fundamentals of the field, now in its 9th edition. I
have taught and lectured all over the world and received multiple awards. 
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In early 2025, I published a professional memoir, entitled Patenting Life, Tales from the
Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology (Georgetown University Press, 2025).
It is a first-person narrative for lay readership, which, through professional stories and anecdotes,
tells of the role of intellectual property in the rise of commercial biology in the 20th century. It is
available in hardcover wherever books are sold and on Kindle from AMAZON. The audiobook
version will be coming out on February 18, 2025.

My background has given me a keen sensitivity for the problems of disenfranchised and
impoverished members of the developing world. As a consequence, I created a pro bono practice
in my law firm that represents the intellectual property interests of Native Americans, whether
from US Indian Country or from South American tribes. One of these pro bono cases is
described in my article, “Protecting rainforest-derived technology equitably,” WIPO Magazine,
February 2019. ​
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    • Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology
    • Written by: Jorge Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2025-02-18
    • Language: English
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