Timothy is the chair of the firm's life sciences industry team. He has extensive experience as a trial attorney, including all forms of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He leads or has led litigation teams in numerous large, complex matters, including cases in the fields of patents and other forms of intellectual property, technology licensing and development, trade and competition, healthcare, securities, professional malpractice and all aspects of business litigation. His intellectual property experience spans industries such as pharmaceuticals, Internet advertising, hospitality, heavy manufacturing, software development, construction, environmental remediation, and many others.
He is the leader of the firm's Hatch-Waxman litigation team, serving as lead counsel in all phases of numerous ANDA cases for a leading generic pharmaceutical company, including several "first-filer" cases. He has a significant experience in this field, including serving as lead trial counsel on numerous trials and facilitating a major product launch with 180-day exclusivity, nearly 10 years before the last-to-expire patents.
Timothy also has extensive experience in other IP litigation matters in the pharmaceutical arena. He has served as lead counsel in infringement actions against compounding pharmacies alleged to have infringed a patent in the years before FDA approval for the branded product. He has also acted as lead counsel in a patent ownership dispute between a drug inventor and a university research foundation. Additionally, he has acted as lead counsel in a legal malpractice dispute concerning the scope of patent protection for a pharmaceutical product in Pacific Rim countries.
He has a depth of experience in the management of high stakes, high profile commercial litigation. He has tried many cases to verdict in a variety of jurisdictions, and argued several appeals before federal and state appellate courts. He has taught trial advocacy to both law students and lawyers in several states. While earning his law degree, he was a recipient of the Law Foundation Scholarship.
