Miss Amanda Antons > Dechert LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Dechert LLP Offices
35 West Wacker Drive
Suite 3400
CHICAGO, IL 60601-1608
ILLINOIS
United States
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Miss Amanda Antons
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Career
Amanda K. Antons, Ph.D.’s practice focuses on patent litigation, specifically in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, including biologics litigation, Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation, Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, European Patent Office proceedings, other contentious patent office matters including interferences, and related trade secrets litigation. Her doctoral training, including work on T cell/HIV interactions, provides her with significant research experience and knowledge in the biotechnology and life sciences industries. Her cases have dealt with a wide variety of technologies, including monoclonal antibodies (e.g., ixekizumab, adalimumab, anti-PD-1/L1 antibodies), and other biologics (e.g., AAV viral vectors, aflibercept, CRISPR, epopoietin), peptides (e.g., insulin glargine, daptomycin), DNA sequencing and small-molecule therapeutics.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
With broad technical expertise and cross-border capabilities, Dechert LLP represents clients in the life sciences industries before a variety of patent litigation venues. The group has a particularly strong appellate practice and also fields significant experience acting on behalf of petitioners and patent owners in Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings relating to pharmaceutical and biologic products. Trial lawyer Martin Black in Philadelphia leads the firm’s national IP litigation group, which also includes New York life sciences litigator Katherine Helm, who represents innovator pharmaceutical and biotech companies in both patent and patent-related litigation, and Amanda Antons in Chicago, who is highly experienced in ANDA litigation.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation