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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, High-stakes and high-risk litigation

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Lauren A. Degnan is a Principal in the Washington, DC, of Fish & Richardson. She leads high-stakes, high-risk litigation where hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. A trial attorney experienced in all phases of patent litigation, Ms. Degnan has argued in the Markman and summary judgment contexts in numerous federal district courts, and has argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has handled a variety of cases before the United States International Trade Commission, including utility patent, design patent, registered trademark, trade dress, and trade secret cases. Ms. Degnan is also an appellate and briefing specialist, with an impressive record of summary judgment and appellate wins. Her experience includes post grant procedures, including reexaminations and inter partes reviews, and antitrust claims and counterclaims arising in connection with intellectual property disputes. She also performs strategic counseling for her clients on avoiding and resolving litigation, appellate arguments, and IP strategy.

Ms. Degnan specializes in high technology litigation and has litigated cases involving computer software, networks, and peripherals, microprocessors, telecommunications equipment, medical devices, smartphones, LCDs and plasma displays, security and encryption technologies, GPS devices, flash memory, internet applications, business methods, document imaging and storage systems, and various mechanical inventions. Before joining Fish, she served as a judicial clerk to then Chief Judge Haldane Robert Mayer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1997-1999).