Eric Dittmann

Practice Areas

Eric W. Dittmann is Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings, overseeing the firm's 100-plus lawyer IP group. Mr. Dittmann has a wealth of first-chair experience in business-critical IP litigations, arbitrations, and post-grant proceedings involving a broad range of technologies, including in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device fields. He has helped leading life sciences companies protect their critical, sometimes life-saving, multibillion-dollar drug products, and successfully defended numerous leading companies against accusations of patent infringement in high-stakes proceedings. Mr. Dittmann has been recognized as a leading patent litigator by numerous publications.

Career

Served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Alan D. Lourie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Personal

Seton Hall Law School, J.D., 2000 (summa cum laude, Associate Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review)

Rutgers University College of Engineering, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1997 (with High Honors)