Thirty years ago, Nick Seay moved here – to a city he had never seen – and joined a handful of patent lawyers working in this relatively small university town.
Today, Seay is one of more than 80 registered patent lawyers in Madison and is a key player in the commercialization of embryonic stem cells, one of the most cutting-edge scientific technologies on the globe.
It was Seay who wrote the potentially lucrative patents that were filed after University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson in 1998 became the first person to isolate human embryonic stem cells.