Bill Bowen joined Gen-Probe Inc., a developer of diagnostic and blood-screening tests, as general counsel in 1997. Before that, he was a business litigation partner for 11 years at Luce Forward.
The University of Virginia School of Law alum didn't do much patent litigation at Luce, but he worked on a patent case for Gen-Probe. At the time, the company happened to be looking for an in-house lawyer and Bowen was interested going in-house. Trouble was, he wasn't ... (continued)