Daniel A. Kopp, Ph.D.

Specialist

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• Washington Office

Daniel A. Kopp is a patent agent in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property group.

Dr. Kopp assists with the drafting and prosecuting of patent applications in the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostic devices, chemistry, and nanotechnology fields.  He also assists with patent due diligence, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions.  Prior to joining Steptoe, he was a technology specialist in the patent group of another firm. 

As an NIH predoctoral trainee in biotechnology, research assistant, and teaching assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he researched the structure and mechanism of methane monooxygenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of methane to methanol.  He is experienced with methods including enzyme kinetics, cloning and expression of proteins, X-ray crystallography, protein cross-linking, as well as ESI and MALDI mass spectrometry.

He has published articles in Biochemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie.

Publications

• Structural Features of Covalently Cross-linked Hydroxylase and Reductase Proteins of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase as Revealed by Mass Spectrometric Analysis. Kopp, D., Berg, E., Costello, C., and Lippard, S. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 20039-20945, 2003.
• Soluble methane monooxygenase: activation of dioxygen and methane. Daniel A. Kopp and Stephen J. Lippard. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 6, 568-576, 2002.
• Electron-Transfer Reactions of the Reductase Component of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath). Daniel A. Kopp, George T. Gassner, Jessica L. Blazyk, and Stephen J. Lippard. Biochemistry, 40, 14932-14941, 2001.

Professional Affiliations

• US Patent and Trademark Office