Smith, DeAnn

DeAnn Smith provides worldwide strategic patent counseling to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and academic and research institutions. She advises on matters relating to intellectual property portfolio strategy, including development, management and enforcement of intellectual assets.

DeAnn has a global patent counseling practice which includes litigation and transactional matters. As noted by a client, DeAnn is “timely, thoughtful and appropriately aggressive, she is highly knowledgeable in both law and business. Her instincts and ability to anticipate outcomes are exceptional, making her a highly trusted adviser for the most complicated matters.”

DeAnn provides worldwide patent portfolio management, competitive landscape analyses, freedom-to-operate assessments, due diligence evaluations and patent opinions. She has substantial experience with inventorship disputes.

DeAnn routinely advises on worldwide patent term extension issues and is actively involved in appeal level litigation in many major European jurisdictions to obtain highly valuable Supplementary Patent Certificates (SPCs). DeAnn has also been involved in numerous PTAB proceedings, EPO oppositions and appeals, and patent infringement matters including Section 337 actions before the International Trade Commission.