Languages

• Chinese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Russian
• Spanish
• Ukranian

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Biotechnology
• Class Action Employment Litigation
• Class Action Litigation
• Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
• Construction
• Consumer Goods Product Liability Litigation
• Consumer Products & Retail
• Coordination of Product Liability Litigation
• Copyrights & Trademarks
• Federal and State Wage-Hour Counseling & Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Labor & Employment
• Labor & Employment Health Care Law
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Life Sciences
• M&A
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Prosecution
• Pharmaceuticals
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Product Response Team
• Reductions in Force & Managing Change
• Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
• Toxic Tort Exposure Litigation (Chemical, Environmental, and Occupational)
• Trial Practice

Published Works

• Toxic Trespass Claims: Beyond the Lab Results, Toxics Law Reporter, 2009
• Creating Workable Arbitration Agreements in the Post - Gentry Era, coauthor, Employee Relations Law Journal, 2008
• Biofuels: A (Carbon) Balanced Act, The Daily Transcript, Vol. 123, No. 223, 2008
• CIRM Funding Worth the Cost of Rules, Restrictions?, The Daily Transcript, Vol. 123, No. 208, 2008
• ALERT: California Appellate Court Holds that Meal Periods Must be Made Available to Employees; California Labor Commissioner Follows Suit, 2008

Representative Cases

• BioSphere Medical, Inc. v. Artes Medical USA, Inc. (D. Del.); Artes Medical USA, Inc. v. BioSphere Medical, Inc. (S.D. Cal.)
• Celgene Corporation et al. v. Abrika Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al., (D. N.J. 2006)
• Celgene Corporation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and Novartis Pharma AG v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., (several actions)
• Chicago Title Insurance Corporation v. James A. Magnuson; First American Title Insurance Company, 487 F. 3d 985, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 11883; 2007 FED App. 084P (6th Cir., May 21, 2007)
• Estée Lauder, Inc. v. L'Oreal, S.A.
• In re '639 Patent Litigation
• International Nutrition Co. v. Horphag Research Ltd.
• NLRB v. ProMedica, et al. Case Nos. 05-1660, 05-1735, District Court Nos. 8-CA-31818 and 8-CA-32345 (6th Cir. 2006)
• Serta, Inc. et al. v. Simmons Company
• Acquisition of GLS
• Acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories
• Establishing Patent Portfolio for Embosphere®
• Establishing Patent Portfolio for Various Approved Products
• Establishing Patent Portfolio of Small Molecule
• Establishing Patent Portfolio of Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors
• Issuance of Shares by Ambrx, Inc.
• Members of the Armed Forces on a Wide Variety of Legal Matters
• Patent Due Diligences
• Patent Portfolio
• Patent Portfolio Management and Strategy for pIgR technology
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Prosecution & Strategy
• Patent Prosecution for Certain Antisense Clinical Candidates
• Patent Prosecution of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Technology
• Patent Prosecution of Ethyol® (Amifostine)
• Patent Prosecution of Peptide and Small Molecule Programs
• Patent Prosecution of Small Molecule Programs
• Patent Prosecution of Synagis® and Numax™
• Patent Prosecution of Thalomid® (Thalidomide), IMiDs™, and SelCIDS™
• Sale of Delta Petroleum Company, Inc.
• Systems integrator/VAR technology acquisition license and call center cross-license in online hotel booking industry.
• U.S. and Foreign Patent Prosecution
• U.S. and Foreign Patent Prosecution

West Practice Categories

Alcoholic Beverages, Apparel, Asbestos, Asbestos, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Class Actions, Closely Held Businesses, Collective Bargaining, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Environmental Law, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, International Trade Litigation, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Limited Liability Companies, Litigation & Appeals, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Medical Products & Devices, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Patent Litigation, Patents, Pesticides, Pharmaceutical Products, Pharmaceutical Products, Products Liability Law, Radiation & Electromagnetic Energy, Recreational Products, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Solid Waste, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Technology Licensing, Tobacco, Tobacco, Toxic Torts, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Wage & Hour Laws, Water Pollution, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act