Teresa M. Summers represents clients in patent, trademark, commercial, and Hatch-Waxman litigation; appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; proceedings before the PTAB and TTAB; and counseling. Her practice spans many industries, including biomedical sciences, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and computer hardware and software. Ms. Summers regularly represents clients in appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She also has extensive experience in International Trade Commission Section 337 litigation and Federal Circuit appeals, having litigated nearly a dozen actions at the ITC that resulted successful remedial orders or settlement.

Ms. Summers served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Linn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She remains very active in Federal Circuit activities, including assisting the judges in recent Joint Judicial Conferences in Japan, China and Korea on U.S. IP rights. She created the Tokyo IP American Inn of Court, the first Inn of Court based in Japan and the first American Inn of Court based outside of the U.S. For her role in the creation of the Tokyo IP American Inn of Court, Ms. Summers received a Distinguished Service Medal by the Linn Inn Alliance.

Ms. Summers received her B.S. in biology/biomedical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude. During law school, she was active and published in the Georgetown Law Journal, admitted to the Order of the Coif, and received the Leon Robbin Patent Award, ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law, and the Cali Award. Ms. Summers has published numerous articles: she authored “The Scope of Utility in the Twenty-First Century: New Guidance for Gene-Related Patents” and co-authored “Database Legislation: Changing Technologies Require Revised Laws” and “Medicare Act Increases Risk of Declaratory Judgment Actions Against Innovators.”