Latham & Watkins Promotions
Latham & Watkins has made a round of 31 partner and 12 counsel promotions, including the election of two IP attorneys to partner in its Century City and San Francisco offices.
In Century City, Laura Washington has been promoted to partner. Washington works in the firm’s litigation and trial department, focusing on complex commercial litigation in the entertainment and media industry.
She works with clients in disputes of copyright and trademark infringement and has represented clients before state and federal courts.
Washington joined Latham & Watkins in 2015 as an associate. She previously worked at O’Melveny & Myers from 2009 to 2015. Her promotion will be effective Jan. 1., 2018.
Biotech Company Wins Cancer Drug Patent
Eos Biosciences, a Century City nanomedicines company affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, has obtained a patent for a drug delivery platform aimed toward breast cancer.
The private Century City biotech company said it had obtained a second patent for its Eos-001 nanoparticle drug delivery system, which delivers drugs to cancer cells at the molecular level.
“This is a very exciting time for Eos Biosciences,” Omar Haffar, Eos Bioscience’s president, chief executive and co-founder, said in a statement. “In addition to expanding and solidifying our patent portfolio, we are making very significant progress on the pre-clinical development and scale-up manufacturing of our products.”
