Work history
Solo Patent Practitioner
Ingenium Patents LLC
February 2008 – Present (7 years 8 months)
Patent prosecution, patent searching, information brokering and consulting.
Analyst
Nerac
1994 – 2008 (14 years)
Developed and managed automated alerts for patents, competitive intelligence events, and developments in peer reviewed literature sources for diverse clients in pharma, biotech, chemical, and medical device industries, among others.
Search related to patentability, freedom to operate, and validity.
Searched chemical structure, numeric, and literature databases. Commercial and public sources include CAS Registry, CAPlus, Beilstein, Casreact, Kegg Ligand, BRENDA, SwissProt/EMBL, and NCBI, BIOSIS, Inspec, Compendex, RAPRA, Embase, and over 100 other patent and literature databases.
Experienced with STN Express, and its specialized features for chemical database searching and structure searching.
Collaborated with law firms, patent attorneys, inventors and CEOs, and technology transfer offices.
Wrote thorough reports incorporating critical insights often providing valuable original and novel contributions.
Collaborated with sales and marketing personnel in sales and renewal demonstrations. The demonstrations involved live searching with any topic being fair game and extensive interaction with clients and prospects.
Sole Proprietor Technical Information Resources
Technical Information Resources
January 1992 – January 1994 (2 years 1 month)
Research and Advisory Services.
Assistant Professor
St. Joseph College
January 1990 – January 1992 (2 years 1 month)
Assistant Professor
Livingston University
January 1989 – January 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
January 1987 – January 1989 (2 years 1 month)
Research Fellow
University of Notre Dame
March 1983 – April 1987 (4 years 2 months)
Conducted research in the Program for Biochemistry and Biophysics, involving magnetic resonance based studies in enzymology. Published findings.
Publications
Laurence A Cole and Peter R Kramer. Human Physiology, Biochemistry, and Basic Medicine. Academic Press, October 2015.
Kramer, Peter; Nowak, Thomas. “The preparation and characterization of chromium(III) and cobalt(III)complexes of GDP and GTP and their interactions with avian phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.” Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (1988), 32(2), 135-51.
Kramer, Peter R.; Miziorko, Henry M. “3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase: catalysis of acetyl coenzyme A enolization.” Biochemistry (1983), 22(10), 2353-7.
Miziorko, Henry M.; Kramer, Peter R.; Kulkoski, Joy Ann. “S-(3-oxobutyl)coenzyme A. Interactions with acetoacetyl coenzyme A utilizing enzymes.” Journal of Biological Chemistry (1982), 257(6), 2842-7.
Kramer, Peter R.; Miziorko, Henry M. “Purification and characterization of avian liver 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A lyase.” Journal of Biological Chemistry (1980), 255(22), 11023-8.
