Benjamin S. Prebyl 

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

277 South Washington Street

Suite 500

Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Telephone: (703) 836-6400

Facsimile:  (703) 836-2787

E-mail: bprebyl@oliff.com

Position:

Associate

Admitted:

Virginia, 2006

District of Columbia, 2007

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2007

Education:

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 2006
J.D., Juris Doctor

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2003
Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 1999

B.S., Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Affiliations:

American Intellectual Property Law Association
Member

American Bar Association
Member

Published:

Allen, M.; Welch, K; Prebyl, B.; Baker, D.; Meyers, A.; Sayler, G.; Exopolysaccharide production in the wastewater bacterium Thauera Sp. MZIT. Environ. Microbiol.  2004, 6(8), 780-790.

Prebyl, Benjamin S.; Cook, Kelsey D.; Use of fourier transform for deconvolution of the unresolved envelope observed in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of strongly ionic synthetic polymers.  Anal. Chem.  2004, 76(1), 127-136.

Prebyl, Benjamin S.; Characterization of polydisperse polymer systems via mass spectrometry.  Dissertation Univ. of Tenn. Aug. 2003.

Prebyl, B. S.; Kaczmarek, C.; Tuinman, A. A.; Baker, D.C.; Characterizing the electrospray-ionization mass spectral fragmentation pattern of enzymatically derived hyaluronic acid oligomers.  Carbohyd. Res. 2003, 338, 1381-1387.

Prebyl, B. S.; Cook, K. D.; Using monomers as standards for analysis of copolymers by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation.  Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 2003, 88, 175-176.

Zhou, S.; Prebyl, B. S.; Cook, K. D. Profiling pH changes in the electrospray plume.  Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 4885-4888.

Presentations:

Prebyl, B.; Cook, K. D.; Electrospray mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation for assessment of monomer contamination in polymers.  Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Orlando, FL, June 2-6, 2002.

Prebyl, B.; Cook, K. D.; Polymer mass spectrometry.  Measurement Control and Engineering Center Fall 2000 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, Knoxville, TN, Apr. 3-Apr. 6, 2002.

Prebyl, B.; Johnson, J.; Cook, K. D.; Electrospray mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation for assessment of monomer ratios in polymers.  Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Chicago, IL, May 26-June 1, 2001.