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Deborah Fishman is a first chair trial attorney with more than two decades of experience representing biopharmaceutical and medical device companies in patent and intellectual property litigation, antitrust, trade secret, and general commercial disputes. Deborah has successfully represented Fortune 500 companies in business-critical patent cases and commercial disputes worth more than US$1 billion through trial as well as on appeal, including to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her experience includes all aspects of patent litigation concerning biologic therapeutics, including innovator competitor cases on both the enforcement and defense side, as well as BPCIA and ANDA litigation representing innovator biopharmaceutical companies. She is also a registered patent attorney and has an active practice in post-grant contentious proceedings before the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB), before district courts, and on appeal to the Federal Circuit, and frequently coordinates with foreign counsel on ex-U.S. defense and enforcement proceedings.
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Deborah has served as an editor of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook for more than a decade, as well as a contributing author to chapters on Biotechnology Patent Litigation and Biosimilars Patent Litigation. She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998; and earned her B.S., in Biology and her B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University in 1995, with honors and distinction.
