Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Lawrence Cogswell is a senior associate in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department. He joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Dr. Cogswell's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, where he has represented clients in patent disputes in federal district court and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has litigation expertise with pharmaceutical and chemical subject matter, as well as with medical devices and electronics.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Cogswell completed a clerkship with the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

During his graduate studies, Dr. Cogswell researched problems of interest to the pharmaceutical industry, including the elucidation of protein structure and the development of better methods for probing the interactions between drugs and their targets. His approach was multidisciplinary, spanning the fields of synthetic organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, molecular modeling and chemical kinetics.

Professional Activities

Dr. Cogswell has published numerous articles in legal and scientific journals. He has presented his scientific work at a variety of regional and national conferences.

Publications

Legal Publications

• "The Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court," co-authored with Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa, 55 Am. U. L. Rev. 821 (2006).
• "Understanding and Addressing the Unfair Dilemma Created by the Doctrine of Willful Patent Infringement," co-authored with William F. Lee, 41 Houston L. Rev. 393 (2004).
• "Bankrupt Patents: Issues of Standing and Discovery," co-authored with Crag. R. Smith, in 2004 Intellectual Property Law Conference §3 (MCLE).

Scientific Publications

• "On the Mechanism by Which Epinephrine Potentiates Lidocaine's Peripheral Nerve Block," co-authored with C.J. Sinnott, A. Johnson, and G.R Strichartz, 98 Anesthesiology 181-88 (2003). 
• "Hydrophobic and Ionic Factors in the Binding of Local Anesthetics to the Major Variant of Human Alpha1-Acid Glycoprotein," co-first-authored with S. Taheri, and also with A. Gent and G.R. Strichartz, 304 J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 71-80 (2003).
• "Drug Binding to Human Alpha 1-Acid Glycoprotein," Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University (2002).
• "Development of a Novel Probe for Measuring Drug Binding to the F1*S Variant of Human Alpha 1-Acid Glycoprotein," with D.E. Raines, S. Parekh, O. Jonas, J.E. Maggio and G.R. Strichartz, 90 J. Pharm. Sci. 1407-23 (2001).
• "Mechanistic Studies on the Dissociation of Mono- and Bimetallic 1:1 Ferric Dihydroxamate Complexes: Probing Structural Effects in Siderophore Dissociation Reactions," co-authored with M. Tyler Caudle and Alvin L. Crumbliss, 33 Inorg. Chem. 4759-73 (1994).

Areas of Practice

• Litigation/Controversy

Representative Cases

• ITC Determines WilmerHale Client Broadcom Did Not Infringe SiRF's Patents

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• District of Columbia

Education

• Yale Law School, 2005
  JD
• Harvard University, 2002
  PhD, Biophysics
• Harvard University, 1997
  AM, Chemistry
• Duke University, 1994
  BS, Chemistry
  Honors: summa cum laude

Published Works

• The Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court, 2006
• Understanding and Addressing the Unfair Dilemma Created by the Doctrine of Willful Patent Infringement, 2004
• Bankrupt Patents: Issues of Standing and Discovery, 2004
• On the Mechanism by Which Epinephrine Potentiates Lidocaine's Peripheral Nerve Block, 2003
• Hydrophobic and Ionic Factors in the Binding of Local Anesthetics to the Major Variant of Human Alpha1-Acid Glycoprotein, 2003
• Drug Binding to Human Alpha 1-Acid Glycoprotein, 2002
• Development of a Novel Probe for Measuring Drug Binding to the F1*S Variant of Human Alpha 1-Acid Glycoprotein, 2001
• Mechanistic Studies on the Dissociation of Mono- and Bimetallic 1:1 Ferric Dihydroxamate Complexes: Probing Structural Effects in Siderophore Dissociation Reactions, 1994

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