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Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation

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Provided by Vern Norviel

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Vern Norviel is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a senior practitioner in the firm's patents and innovations counseling practice. Vern has three decades of experience formulating successful strategies for life science companies and helping them develop IP programs. He represents a wide variety of companies, as well as venture capital firms, in areas such as therapeutics, diagnostics, nanotechnology, genomics, proteomics, and personalized medicine. In fact, Vern's interest in the field of personalized medicine prompted him to become the first attorney to have had his or her entire genome sequenced and made available in a public database.

Before joining the firm in 2003, Vern was the general counsel and corporate secretary of Perlegen Sciences, Inc., a start-up biotechnology company that scans the entire human genome for important therapeutic and diagnostic products. Previously, as senior vice president and general counsel, he was an early employee of Affymetrix, the biotechnology company that pioneered and developed DNA chip technology. He also had been a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto.

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Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation - California

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Vern Norviel offers considerable experience in advising on life science patent strategy and prosecution, as well as IP litigation in a variety of venues around the world.

Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution - California

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Vern Norviel brings decades of expertise to his noncontentious IP practice, counseling on all aspects of patent strategy for major life sciences companies.

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