With a technical science background, Olga Berson assists her clients with complex patent and technical issues in the areas of biotechnology, pharmacology, medicine, cosmetics, and chemistry. Her practice includes Hatch-Waxman and biologics patent litigation, Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) proceedings and litigation, US Patent & Trademark Office proceedings, IP due diligence investigations, and strategic IP counseling. She represents clients in patent disputes before various federal district and appellate courts, including the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, arbitration panels, the International Trade Commission, and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Olga has 15 years of experience litigating Hatch-Waxman and major life sciences patent cases. Olga conducts IP due diligence investigations in connection with mergers and acquisitions, licensing of patent portfolios, venture capital financing, and other transactions. She advises clients on strategic patent portfolio development and third-party patent landscape analyses. Olga also consults clients on patentability, freedom to operate, patent validity, and non-infringement issues.
A native Russian speaker, Olga often assists her clients with IP due diligence involving technologies developed in Russia and helps with identification of invalidating prior art in Russian language against patent portfolios of interest. She conducts IP due diligence investigations for Russian venture capital firms in connection with their investments into technologies developed in the United States.
Olga received her Ph.D. in environmental science and chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Olga’s technical knowledge and training span diverse technical areas, including pharmaceutical and biological compositions, drug delivery systems, medical devices, diagnostics, cosmetics, molecular biology, microbiology, chemistry, and material science. She authored papers in the areas of environmental chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology. Olga’s technical training enables her to develop a quick understanding of the technology at issue, effectively work with inventors and experts, identify critical prior art, obtain useful admissions from opponents during discovery, and develop creative legal arguments.
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Intellectual Property, Law360 (2019)
Member, Litigation Department of the Year–Intellectual Property, The American Lawyer (2019)
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Chemical Society
Rising Star for Intellectual Property, Super Lawyers (2005, 2008)
Rising Star for Intellectual Property Litigation, Super Lawyers (2005, 2008)
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