Heidi Keefe
Cooley LLPCooley LLP represents global companies on both sides of patent infringement disputes in the tech and life sciences sectors and is especially experienced in working with emerging companies and invalidating third-party patent assertions. The ‘highly capable’ Steve Smith in Washington DC is a seasoned intellectual property litigator with expertise in a variety of technical fields who frequently represents clients in cases before the International Trade Commission. Representing clients such as Meta and Nianti, Heidi Keefe in Palo Alto is an expert in patent infringement disputes in the tech sector. The group in DC also includes Sanya Sukduang, who is a trusted patent litigator in the life sciences space, tech and IP specialist Phillip Morton, and life sciences expert Jonathan Davies. Other notable practitioners include biosciences expert Michelle Rhyu in Palo Alto and Adam Pivovar in DC, who focuses on tech and life sciences IP matters. In June 2023, San Diego lawyer Chad Shear and Minneapolis contact Betsy Flanagan joined the firm from Fish & Richardson P.C..
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‘Team lead by Steve Smith is highly capable and manages the project very well. We feel confident with their help.’
Key clients
- 3M Company
- Contentsquare
- CSL Seqirus
- Horizon Medicines LLC
- iProov Ltd.
- Liquidia Technologies, Inc.
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- NanoString Technologies, Inc.
- Ouster
- Science Applications International Corp.
- Verkada, Inc.
- Vifor (international) AG
- Wayfair LLC
Work highlights
- Represented Meta Platform in numerous matters, including in the patent battle against USC IP.
- Represented Moderna in multiple patent infringement cases brought by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Represented the biopharmaceutical company Liquidia as lead litigation and IPR counsel in a Hatch-Waxman litigation concerning Liquidia’s new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension, LIQ861, which utilizes Liquidia’s proprietary PRINT technology for enhanced deep lung delivery of treprostinil.
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