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Axinn is the go-to firm for IP matters of strategic importance. The firm has numerous seasoned IP trial lawyers, typically has several dozen patent cases pending at a time, tries multiple patent cases annually and has served as lead counsel in some of the most significant recent patent trials, including the defense of a multi-billion dollar jury trial. On many occasions, the firm has been asked to take over pending cases and serve as lead trial counsel.
Axinn attorneys also offer exceptional depth of technical training and patent counseling experience. Axinn seeks to partner with its clients in the ongoing management of their IP portfolios, product launches and defensive issues. To help its clients execute their business plans, the firm marshals all of its skills and experience in law, science, business and (when necessary) litigation.
Axinn offers skills and experience in numerous industries and technologies, including all areas of life sciences, chemicals, mechanical, electronics and software. In addition, the firm has an extensive FDA litigation and counseling practice.
Axinn is also well-positioned to handle issues and cases at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. The firm regularly litigates antitrust counterclaims in IP cases, and counsels clients on issues such as patent pooling, the legality of settlement and license agreements and patent misuse.
News
- Axinn Recognized in Nine Categories of "Best Law Firms" Report
- Axinn Attorneys Named in Super Lawyers 2018
- Axinn Launches California Office, Bringing Elite Antitrust and IP Practices to West Coast
- Axinn Successfully Secures Asylum for Pro Bono Client
- Axinn Named "Intellectual Property Firm to Watch" at the LMG Life Sciences Awards 2018
- Axinn Leads Alvogen to Victory in Hatch-Waxman Case for Generic Zohydro®
- Nine Axinn Partners Named to Best Lawyers 2019
- PTAB Institutes Two Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) Petitions Filed by Axinn Against Shire’s Patents for ADHD Drug Mydayis®
- Axinn Sponsors Travelers Championship 2018
- Axinn Successfully Defeats a Motion to Dismiss on Behalf of Pro Bono Client
- Chambers USA Recognizes Axinn Practice Groups
- Chambers USA Recognizes Seven Axinn Partners
- Axinn Sponsors Genomics Lab at Connecticut Science Center
- Stacie Ropka Named Among Hartford Business Journal's Remarkable Women in Business
- The Connecticut Law Tribune Honors Two Axinn Attorneys
- New York State Bar Recognizes Twelve Axinn Attorneys
- Axinn Promotes Jeny Maier and Jason Murata
- Axinn Files IPR Petitions Challenging Patents on Shire LLC’s Drug Mydayis®
- Axinn Recognized in Eight Categories of "Best Law Firms" Report
- Axinn Attorneys Named in Super Lawyers 2017
- Axinn to Sponsor CAPABA Annual Dinner
- Eight Axinn Partners Named to the 2018 List of Best Lawyers in America
- Federal Circuit Rules for Axinn Client in Abilify Patent Appeal
- Suchira Ghosh Named Law360 Rising Star
- Axinn Sponsors Travelers Championship
- Chambers USA Recognizes Axinn Practice Groups
- Six Axinn Partners Recognized by Chambers USA
- Dr. Stacie Ropka Identified as a Woman Worth Watching in STEM® Award Winner
- Axinn Promotes Stacie Ropka, Suchira Ghosh and Jeny Maier
- Axinn Successfully Argues for Claim Construction in Mayne v. Merck
- Axinn Successfully Obtains Dismissal of Certain Patent Claims asserted against Zydus Pharmaceuticals in Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. HEC Pharma Co., Ltd.
- Axinn Earns Six Tier 1 Categories in "Best Law Firms"
- Axinn Attorneys Named in Super Lawyers 2016
- Axinn Named IP Litigation Department of the Year
- Six Axinn Partners Named to the 2017 List of Best Lawyers in America
- Axinn Defeats TRO, Enabling Immediate Launch of Generic Versions of AstraZeneca’s Blockbuster Crestor
- Axinn Named to The National Law Journal’s 2016 Midsize Hot List
- Axinn Obtains Stipulated Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement for Zydus
- Axinn Expands IP and Regulatory Practice with Partners David Silverstein and Aziz Burgy
- Axinn Recognized in Six Categories of "Best Law Firms" Report
- Axinn Successfully Obtains Dismissal for Zydus Pharmaceuticals
- Axinn Partners Named to the 2016 List of Best Lawyers in America
- Axinn Attorneys Named in Super Lawyers 2015
- Axinn Obtains Denial of a TRO Motion for Client Zydus
- Axinn Partners Ranked by Chambers in Global Guide
- Axinn Named Litigation Department of the Year
- Axinn Promotes Rachel Adcox and John Tanski to Partner; Thomas Hedemann to Counsel
- Axinn Successful In Protecting FDA Approval for Client Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Axinn Earns Six Tier 1 Categories in "Best Law Firms"
- Matt Becker, Jim Veltrop, John Briggs, Steve Axinn and Fran Morrison Named to the List of 2015 Best Lawyers in America
- Jason Murata Selected as New Leader in the Law
- Axinn Attorneys Named in Super Lawyers 2014
- Axinn Granted Summary Judgment in Delaware Federal Court
- Axinn Named to The National Law Journal's Midsize Hot List
- Axinn Honored With Litigation Department of the Year
- Federal Circuit Rules for Axinn Client in Tamiflu Patent Appeal
- Chad Landmon Named to Law360's Intellectual Property "Rising Star" List
- Entire Market Value Rule Vs. 'Convoyed Sales' Rule
- Longtime FTC Veteran Richard Dagen Joins Axinn
- Axinn Promotes Daniel Bitton and Stacie Ropka
- Axinn Wins $16 Million Damages Award for Medical Device Client at Jury Trial in Delaware
- Chad Landmon Receives University of Connecticut Distinguished Alumni Award
- Chad Landmon Named to Law360's Life Sciences "Rising Star" List
- Axinn Obtains Favorable Decision in FDA Suit
- Axinn Partner Chad Landmon Honored as a "New Leader in the Law"
- Axinn Obtains Summary Judgment Victory Against FDA
- Axinn Assisted Actavis in Resolving Ten-Year-Old Dispute with Pfizer
- Axinn Successful in Protecting Client Alvogen's Entry to Drug Market
- Axinn Partners Named Connecticut "Rising Stars" 2011/2012
- Axinn Partners Named Connecticut Super Lawyers 2011/2012
- Axinn Partners Named to Super Lawyers Business Edition 2011
- Axinn Partner Chad Landmon Honored as Hartford Business Journal “40 Under 40” Winner
- Axinn Partner Jonathan Harris Speaks with the Hartford Business Journal about Small Green Firm Winning Patent
- Axinn Partner, Associate Pen Article on Biosimilar Approval Standards Under BPCI
- On March 17, 2011, Chad Landmon Discussed Bioequivalence at ACI's FDA Boot Camp
- On February 3, 2011, Chad Landmon Presented on the FDA Hearings on the BPCI Act at the AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute
- Matthew Becker Speaks With PharmaWire on the Potential Patent Life of BTC and Johnson & Johnson’s Abiraterone Drug For Prostate Cancer
- Axinn Attorneys Named Connecticut Super Lawyers 2011
- Chad Landmon Presented on Bioequivalence in Boston
- Jonathan Harris Presents on Follow-on Biologics in San Francisco
- Axinn Partner Chad Landmon Speaks with Pharmawire about Johnson & Johnson Facing Further Regulatory Scrutiny
- Axinn's Partner Chad A. Landmon Quoted by The Pink Sheet Discussing the Lovenox Lawsuit
- Axinn Attorney Named to Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition July/August 2010
- On July 19-20, Jonathan Harris Presents on Follow-on Biologics in Boston
- Jonathan Harris Presents on Inventorship and Prior Conception in New York City
- On June 3, 2010, Jonathan Harris Speaks on In Re Rosuvastatin Litigation
- Landmon Quoted by Pharmawire on the Possibility of a Cephalon Settlement
- Landmon Provides Insights on Generics Challenge of AstraZeneca's Crestor Patents to Pharmawire
- Landmon Discusses Teva's Launch of Generic Cozaar/Hyzaar With Market Exclusivity with The Pink Sheet
- Chad Landmon Discusses a Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Ruling with The Pink Sheet
- Axinn Wins Summary Judgment on Behalf of Mutual Pharmaceutical Company
- Axinn Partner Chad Landmon Discusses "pay-for-delay" Legislation in White House Health Care Plan
- Axinn's Chad Landmon Discusses the Likelihood of the FTC Increasing Efforts to Obtain Passage of "Pay-For-Delay" Legislation with Drug Industry Daily
- Chad Landmon Discusses At-Risk Launches with The Pink Sheet Daily
- Chad Landmon Discusses Report on Generic Drug Availability with Generic Line
- Chad Landmon Discusses Astellas Court Loss with Generic Line
- Chad Landmon Discusses Cubist's Lawsuit Against Teva with Pharmawire
- Axinn's Chad Landmon Speaks with Drug Industry Daily About the Drug Price Competition Act of 2009
- Chad Landmon Participates in Question and Answer Session with The National Law Journal on Follow-On Biologics
- Chad Landmon Discusses Court Decision Enjoining Teva from Launching Generic Osteoporosis Drug with Generic Line
- Chad Landmon Discusses Novartis’ Exjade® with Pharmawire
- Chad Landmon Discusses Court Rulings and Patent Law Reform with Thomson-Reuters
- Chad Landmon Discusses Teva's At-Risk Launch of Generic Pulmicort with The Pink Sheet
- Chad Landmon Discusses FDA's Letter Ruling Practice with The Pink Sheet
- CBI's Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes -- Chad Landmon Discusses Litigation Strategies, Generic Exclusivity Forfeiture and Recent Developments in Paragraph IV Disputes
- Chad Landmon Discusses Recent Declaratory Judgment Ruling with The Pink Sheet
- Pfizer Buys More Time for Lipitor
- Matt Becker participates in GC New England Rountable on Patent Litigation
- Law Article May Spark Patent Litigation Strategy
- The Best and Worst Patents for Generics to Fight
- Chad Landmon Discussess generic exclusivity forfeiture provisions with IP Law360
- Michael Keeley and Chad Landmon discuss FDA's recent 180-day exclusivity decisions with FDAnews
- FDAnews Audioconference -- Navigating the FDA's New 180-Day Generic Marketing Exclusivity Rulings
- Firm Gears Up For High Stakes Drug Lit
- Jim Veltrop Featured in IP360
- Cantor Colburn's Michael Cantor plugs Jim Veltrop in IP Law 360
- IP Litigation: Fran Morrison Comments on Qualcomm Legal Issues in Wall Street Journal and The Recorder
- Axinn Represents INEOS in U.S. Litigation
- Axinn Serving as Patent Counsel for ADHD and Pain Relief Medications
- Axinn Continues to Expand Its Intellectual Property Group
- Axinn Represents URL/Mutual Companies in Launch of Guaifenesin Products
- Axinn Defends Fila in Marshall, Texas Patent Action
- Axinn Expands Its Intellectual Property Group
- Axinn Represents Sport Brands International/FILA in Connection with Launch of Various Products
- Axinn Represents R.R. Donnelly in Patent and Antitrust Litigation
- Axinn Represents Purepac Pharmaceutical Company in Metformin Launch
- Axinn Represents Stanley Works in Patent Litigation
- Stanley Defends Its Colors, Trade Turfs
- Axinn Defends Ryobi Technologies, Inc.
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Articles & Newsletters
- Patent Dance Developments: A Tale of 2 Antibodies
- Pre-ANDA Litigation: Strategies and Tactics for Developing a Drug Product and Patent Portfolio, Second Edition
- The CRISPR Tug of War
- Expert Q&A on Key Updates in BPCIA Litigation
- Beyond the Merits: Generic Company Defense Strategies
- Integrating Trade Secrets into a Comprehensive IP Strategy
- 2017 Federal Circuit Obviousness Decisions in Biopharma: 5 Takeaways
- J&J, Pfizer Biosimilar Payer Policy Case Could Survive Motion to Dismiss but Proving Anticompetitiveness Remains Challenging, Experts Say
- Using Digital Tools in Litigation
- End of Laches Might Increase Declaratory Judgement Actions
- Joint Infringement Post-Akamai
- How Much Detail Should You Provide in a Patent Infringement Complaint?
- Recent Developments in Japanese and U.S. Trade Secret Laws
- Data Analytics to Identify Hot Spots in Obviousness Challenges
- FDA Regulation of HCT/Ps – Impact of New Guidances on Manufacturers and Users
- Now Comes The Hard Part: Sandoz Must Sell Its Biosimilar
- A Call for Antibody Quality Control
- 5 Lessons We Can Learn from FDA’s First Biosimilar Review
- Protecting Business Trade Secrets When Working Abroad
- Should The Entire Market Value Rule Apply To Lost Profits?
- Law360's Q&A With Axinn's Matthew Becker
- Federal Circuit Issues Key Ruling on Induced Patent Infringement
- 2012 Court Decisions Impact the Life Science Industry
- Use of License Agreements to Determine Reasonable Royalties
- Brand's Off-Label Promotion: Valuable Tool for Generics
- Formulation Patents and Dermatology and Obviousness
- Innovative Procedures v. Premarketing Approval
- Machine-Or-Transformation Test After Myriad: Implications To The Prosecution Of Process Claims
- Heightened Standard For The Entire Market Value Rule?
- Human Tissue and Stem Cell Therapies: Revolutionary New Therapies that Face Increasing FDA Scrutiny
- Federal Preemption and Labeling: Where Product Liability Collides with FDA
- Making it Easier to Win Patent Infringement Suits
- Federal Circuit Obviousness Vs. SCOTUS Precedent
- Federal Circuit Draws the Line on DJ Jurisdiction
- FDA's Exclusivity Forfeiture Saga Continues
- Raising the Bar of Patentability
- Here Comes The Tidal Wave of Generic DJ Actions
- FDA Removes Teeth From Exclusivity Forfeiture
- What is Patentable?
- Supreme Court Backhands Key Federal Circuit Test
- The Nanotech Researcher's Dilemma: Patent or Perish?
- FTC Rules That Deception Regarding Patents During Standard Setting Process Violates Antitrust Laws
- Fourth Circuit Rejects Another Authorized Generics Challenge
- On Demand: Focusing The Patent Scope
- FDA's "Holding On The Merits" Test
- Recent Court Rulings Indicate That Patent Rights May Trump the Antitrust Laws
- Supreme Court Abandons Presumption of Market Power in Patent-Tying Cases
- The "Narrowed Claim Conundrum" Resulting from Reissue and Reexamination Proceedings
- The Impact of a Brand Generic Launch on the Recovery of Patent Damages
- "Schering" Overruled: Risk of Settling Patent Suits Reduced?
- Invention is the Mother of Litigation
- Trade Secret Misappropriation A Federal Crime
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Speaking Engagements & Seminars
- CBA: "Ethics and Intellectual Property: Traps, Pitfalls, and Adventures in IP Lawyering CLE"
- World Biosimilar Congress Europe
- IP Practice in Japan: "The On-Sale Bar After Helsinn"
- ACI: "Digital Health: Staying Ahead of the Future of Life Sciences"
- ACI: "The New Face of M&A in the Life Sciences Industry: Impacts from Antitrust to IP and Beyond"
- ACI: "Interchangeability for Biosimilars"
- ACI: "Navigating through Biosimilars IPRs"
- PLI: "Patent Eligibility, Prior Art and Obviousness 2018"
- CBA: "Everything You Wanted to Know about Trade Secrets but Were Afraid to Ask"
- NYSBA Webinar: "eDiscovery and Data Protection: The Ethical Issues"
- ACI Paragraph IV Disputes Conference: "A Closer Look at Dispositive Motions"
- ACI Paragraph IV Disputes Conference: "Oil States, SAS and the Future of IPRs"
- NYU Law School: "Practicing IP and Technology Law in the Private Sector"
- Advanced Summit on Medical Device and MedTech Patents: "Climbing out of the Patentable Subject Matter 'Rabbit Hole'"
- NYIPLA Panel: "Hot Topics and Issues in the Biosimilars Space: Part Two"
- NYSBA Panel: "From Farm to Table – The Future of GMO Plants and Animals"
- The Cardozo Data Law Initiative Panel: "Two Years Later: The eDiscovery Amendments"
- Ethics and Intellectual Property Traps, Pitfalls and Adventures in IP Lawyering
- Strategic Approaches to Lexical Search
- Here and Now: Biosimilars for the treatment of IBD
- Chad Landmon Discusses Connecticut Science Center Sponsorship
- Overview of Biological Products Law and Regulation
- Managing Your IP Spend: Containing Costs and Maintaining Quality
- Women Leaders in Life Sciences
- Women in IP & Law
- ACI's 8th Annual Summit on Biosimilars
- World Biosimilar Congress USA
- Magna’s Mock Crisis; Part III
- ACI Post Grant PTO Proceedings Conference
- Operating Company vs Operating Company Litigation: A Proactive Defense
- Securing Your First Law Firm Job
- Trademark & Copyright Summit
- Advanced Summit on Medical Device Patents
- IP Practice in Japan
- Intellectual Property Essentials for Entrepreneurs
- Webinar on FDA's New Final Rule Implementing the MMA and Amending ANDA and 505(b)(2) Practice
- Axinn Attorneys Present at IP Strategy Summit
- The Role of Factual Disputes in PTAB Institution Decisions in the Life Sciences
- Aligning Your Enforcement Strategy with Business Goals
- AIPLA’s IP Practice in Japan Pre-Meeting
- ACI Women Leaders in Life Sciences Law
- ACI Summit on Biosimilars
- Hot Topics and Issues in the Biosimilars Space
- New IP Financial Models: Innovation, Wall Street, and Patents
- American Conference Institute's Sixth Annual Biosimilars Conference
- How to Break Your Adversary Without Breaking the Bank: IP Litigation Strategies
- "Patent Defense Strategies" - Centerforce IP Defense Conference (2014)
- American Conference Institute’s 8th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes, The Gauntlet Rethrown: The Paragraph IV Certification and Notice Letter, New York, New York, April 28, 2014.
- American Conference Institute's Biosimilars Conference
- ACI's 7th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes Conference
- Trading in Secrets: Dealing with Employee and Data Mobility
- Litigation and Prosecution Perspectives on The Obviousness of Medical Devices
- CBI's 4th Life Sciences Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes
- "Medical Device Litigation - A Trial Lawyer's Perspective" - ACI Medical Device Conference (2012)
- American Conference Institute’s 6th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes, Patent Challenge Strategies for ANDA Applicants, New York, New York, April 24, 2012.
- Jonathan Harris Speaks at ACI’s Annual PIV Conference in New York City on April 24 and 25, 2012
- Willful Infringement Before and After Powell v. Home Depot
- The Bar Gets Higher: Royalty Damages After Uniloc
- ACI's FDA Boot Camp: Bioequivalence - What Patent Lawyers Need to Know
- CBI's 4th Annual Bio/Pharmaceutical Drug Safety Forum
- IQPC’s 6th Annual Summit on E-Discovery for Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Device Industries, Understanding the Importance of Litigation Readiness and the Benefits of Technology to aid in Document Review, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 26, 2011.
- ACI's FDA Boot Camp Post-Conference Workshop: Non-Patent Marketing Exclusivities: Challenges, Opportunities and Current Controversies
- "Patent Due Diligence - A Good Business Practice"
- How Much Is That Patent Worth?
- "How the Dynamics of Biosimilars Are Changing the Hatch-Waxman Landscape"
- Jonathan Harris Leads Seminar Entitled, "Prior Art and Obviousness 2011: Current Trends in Sections 102 & 103" on June 6, 2011
- American Conference Institute’s 5th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes, Patent Challenge Strategies for ANDA Applicants, New York, New York, May 3, 2011.
- AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute, meeting of the Special Committee on the FDA: Discussion of the FDA Hearings on the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act
- "Paragraph IV Disputes and Litigation." ACI Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp (2011)
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Biosimilars and Biointerchangeables" at American Conference Institute's Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp on July 19, 2010
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Inventorship & Priority of Invention" at Practicing Law Institute's Prior Art and Obviousness: Current Trends in Sections 102 and 103 Conference on July 7, 2010
- Pitfalls in Royalty Calculations after Lucent and ResQNet
- "Pre-Trial Tactics for Brands and Generics." ACI Paragraph IV Disputes Conference (2010)
- ACI's Paragraph IV on Trial: Litigator's Master Class on Paragraph IV Pre-Trial Preparation
- CBI's Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes and Settlements: Workshop Leader on Assessing Paragraph IV Litigation Strategies
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Medical Process Claims after Bilski and Promethius" at American Conference Institute's Maximizing Pharmaceutical Patent Life Cycles Conference on October 7, 2009
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Patent Litigation Strategies for Follow-on Biologics" at Generic Pharmaceutical Association's (GphA) Annual Meeting on September 19, 2009
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Bioequivalence in Paragraph IV Patent Infringement Litigation" at American Conference Institute's FDA Boot Camp on July 22, 2009
- Assessing the Patent and FDA Strategies for Follow-On Biologics to Maximize Success
- FDAnews Webinar: Assessing the Patent and FDA Strategies for Follow-On Biologics to Maximize Success
- ACI's Paragraph IV Disputes: Advanced Master Class - Obtaining Optimal Terms and Mitigating Antitrust Concerns When Settling Paragraph IV Disputes
- CBI's Annual Summit on Biosimilars and Follow-On Biologics
- "Developing Profits from Patent Assets." NIBA (2009)
- "Intellectual Property and Ethics - Annual Review." AIPLA Annual Meeting (2009)
- Jonathan Harris Presents, "Practical Guidelines for Assessing the Doctrine of Equivalence and Invalidity in Patent Opinion Writing" at American Conference Institute's Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing on November 18, 2008
- ACI's Paragraph IV on Trial: Litigator's Master Class on Paragraph IV Pre-Trial Preparation
- CBI's Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes
- "The Patent Playbook." LES International Annual Meeting (2008)
- FDAnews Audioconference: Navigating the FDA's New 180-Day Generic Marketing Exclusivity Rulings
- Guest Lecturer at the University of Connecticut School of Law
- Collaborating Attorney to the Connecticut Intellectual Property Notes
- "Avoiding Compulsory Licenses in the Post-eBay Era." LES Spring Meeting (2007)
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