Brian Nolan

Practice Areas

Brian W. Nolan is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Intellectual Property group. Brian focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, licensing, counseling, and due diligence in the areas of patent, trade secret, unfair competition, antitrust, trademark, counterfeit goods, and copyright law. Brian has handled matters in all types of technology and moves seamlessly from life sciences to high tech to consumer goods matters.

Brian has acted as lead trial counsel and appellate counsel on numerous matters covering all aspects of intellectual property protection. Brian has participated in several district court trials, ITC investigations, USPTO Inter Partes Review and appellate proceedings relating to a wide range of technologies, including monoclonal antibodies, pharmaceuticals, receptor pharmacology, medical devices, biotechnology, medical imaging technology, crystal growth, semiconductors, laser diodes, building products, data capture systems and computer storage systems. Brian has experience counseling clients concerning their biological products, including working to develop strategies to allow for introduction of new biologics to the marketplace and seeking to protect existing biologics from potential biosimilars competition. Additionally, Brian has experience litigating cases brought under the Hatch-Waxman statute and counseling innovator pharmaceutical companies regarding their patent portfolios and potential generic competition prior to patent expiry.