Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, Intellectual Property Litigation group. 20 years of experience in patent, Hatch-Waxman, and International Trade Commission matters. Regularly appears in federal district courts throughout the USand the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. "Highly Recommended" as a Leading Life Sciences Patent Litigator by Intellectual Asset Management magazine (2010-2011), featured in the Business Edition of Leading Lawyers Network magazine in January 2009. Authored"Patent Defenses" in BNA Books' Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook (2005). President of the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada). MSChemE, Michigan Tech University, 1980; MBA, Loyola University, 1982; J.D. Law, DePaul University, 1986.