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Carsten, Douglas H.
Foley & Lardner LLP
11250 El Camino Real
Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
Phone: (858) 847-6721
Fax: (858) 792-6773
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Current Employment Position(s)
Partner
Lawyer Overview
Douglas Carsten is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the IP Litigation Practice. He is also a member of the Life Sciences Industry Team. He focuses his practice on complex patent litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.
Before joining Foley, Mr. Carsten was an attorney in the San Diego office of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP (which later became DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP). His practice included intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation. Prior to that he was an associate at the firm of Irell & Manella LLP, where his practice was primarily focused on complex biotechnology patent litigation.
Mr. Carsten earned his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1998. He holds a Masters of Arts degree in organic chemistry from Harvard University (1995) and graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.S. in chemistry and English literature (1993).
Mr. Carsten is admitted to practice in California and before the United States District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California, the United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Areas of Practice
- IP Litigation
- Life Sciences
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Past Employment Positions
- Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP (which later became DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP), Attorney
- Irell & Manella LLP, Associate
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia,
1998
J.D.
Honors: cum laude - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1995
Masters of Arts
Major: Organic Chemistry - State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York,
1993
B.S.
Honors: summa cum laude
Major: Chemistry
Major: English Literature
Office Information
Address
11250 El Camino Real
Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
Phones
(858) 847-6721
Faxes
(858) 792-6773