Representative Experience

• Wrote amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of amicus Federal Circuit Bar Association in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“Myriad”), concerning the patentability of isolated human genetic material and methods for using such material.
• Currently admitted pro hac vice on behalf of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in five related Patent Office interference proceedings relating to human PD-L1.
• Won a ruling on behalf of Chinese lysine producer Global Bio-Chem Technology Group Company Limited, first in the International Trade Commission and then in the Federal Circuit, that two biotechnology patents owned by multibillion-dollar chemical company Ajinomoto Co. were invalid and that Ajinomoto had committed inequitable conduct.
• Obtained a rare writ of mandamus from the Federal Circuit ordering the Eastern District of Texas to transfer a patent litigation to the Northern District of California.
• Won a claim construction ruling for Biogen Idec in a case concerning viral enhancers. The district court granted summary judgment against Sanofi Aventis and in favor of Biogen Idec and its co-defendant, Genentech, based on the claim construction. The Federal Circuit recently affirmed the claim construction and summary judgment rulings.
• Won a jury verdict of willful infringement in a medical device patent infringement trial for C.R. Bard against U.S. Surgical Corporation.
• Represented Biogen Idec, Genzyme and Baxter Healthcare in multidistrict litigation against Columbia University challenging patent on recombinant DNA technology, resulting in Columbia’s granting plaintiffs a royalty-free covenant not to sue.
• Represented Authorize.net in e-commerce patent infringement litigation; case settled after favorable claim construction ruling.
• Represented Electro Scientific Industries in patent infringement litigation concerning computer vision systems for chip placement; case settled after favorable Markman finding.
• Obtained covenant not to sue in SVG Lithography, Inc. v. Ultratech Stepper, Inc.