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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Patent and trade secret litigator with significant trial and post trial experience in Federal district courts and the ITC.

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Significant experience representing pharmaceutical companies and Hatch-Waxman Act matters, often defending products worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue. - Key member of many trial teams.- Work closely with agriculture companies, electronics manufacturers, software companies and manufacturers of other mechanical products. - Clients.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Practice focuses on litigating intellectual property disputes spanning a wide variety of technologies and subject matters. Notable skills and experience include:
• Operating as the lead associate with independent responsibility in patent and trade secret litigation matters.
• Working closely with client businesses to identify protectable assets, formulate enforcement plans, create litigation strategies, and make determinations as to how best to assert or defend claims of patent infringement.
• Litigating multiple cases through trial as a key member of trial teams, including: preparing, responding to, and arguing motions in limine; working with fact and expert witnesses; coordinating disclosures and.
• Taking the lead in drafting numerous briefs and motions at all stages of litigation (dismiss, compel, summary judgment, in limine, sanctions, permanent injunction, portions of preliminary injunction briefs, and.
• Taking the lead in drafting numerous pleadings at all stages of litigation (complaints, answers, initial disclosures, 26(f) reports, invalidity and non-infringement contentions, infringement contentions, and pre-trial.

Greater Chicago Area

• Practice focused on litigating patent disputes for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies. Notable experience includes:
• Participating in trial as a member of the trial team, including preparing direct and cross examination outlines, responding to motions in limine, preparing demonstratives, and arguing an evidentiary dispute in court.
• Drafting invalidity and non-infringement contentions, Markman briefs, motions in limine, opinion analysis regarding non-infringement and invalidity for use in a Paragraph IV certification, pre-trial orders, and legal.
• Taking depositions of fact (including 30(b)(6)) and expert witnesses, including key inventors.
• Performing all aspects of fact and expert discovery, including: preparing answers to complaints; responding to discovery requests; reviewing documents for production; managing document review; creating and reviewing.

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Jd, Law

Cum Laude

Ba, Biology

Cum Laude