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Mr. Keil's practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical, life sciences and related fields, both in the United States and abroad. His client counseling responsibilities regularly require him to render assessments regarding patentability, patent enforcement, freedom-to-operate and other intellectual property issues.  His experience includes obtaining patent protection for innovations in chemical engineering process design and control, catalysis, material separation, energy recovery, waste treatment, pharmaceutical synthesis and agricultural chemicals and methods.

Bob is a biologist with undergraduate and graduate training in endocrinology from Virginia Tech. Bob spent over 10 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries working with respiratory drugs, in-vitro diagnostics, and associated methods and instrumentation.  Earlier this decade, while working with business development on matters related to acquisition of new IP as well as protection of existing IP, Bob became very interested to pursue intellectual property law in a personal and intimate capacity.  Bob graduated from SLU Law in May 2016 and was sworn in to the Missouri Bar on September 30th, 2016.

Mr. McBride's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, including preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and abroad. His work focuses primarily upon biotechnology and biochemical patent preparation and prosecution, including patents directed to transgenic plants and bacteria and to novel DNA and protein sequences, chemical and pharmaceutical patent preparation and prosecution, validity/invalidity and infringement opinions, and counseling related to patentability and freedom to operate.