WILMINGTON and SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2023—Duane Morris LLP Silicon Valley partner D. Stuart Bartow and San Diego partner Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D., were named to the Daily Journal’s 2023 Top Intellectual Property Lawyers list. The list recognizes the top California attorneys working in intellectual property.
Bartow is a trial lawyer and technology attorney. He serves as lead counsel to clients from around the globe in intellectual property and other complex commercial matters, with particular emphasis on disputes concerning semiconductors, electronics and clean energy technology. Over two decades, Bartow has accumulated months’ worth of trial days in patent, trade secret and other contentious commercial matters before a wide range of courts and tribunals, obtaining jury trial victories, favorable summary determinations and outright wins by dismissal.
Norton serves as a team lead for the Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Industry Group and is chair of the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Division of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. In more than two decades of life science patent counseling and litigation, she has devised strategies for clients to successfully counter patent claims and demands totaling over $2 billion, has performed IP diligence for transactions and at-the-market offerings worth over $2.5 billion, and has formulated worldwide patent strategies for clients entering public markets with valuations of over $6 billion. Norton also audits technology portfolios and identifies patent coverage issues for her clients’ transactions, venture financings and patent enforcement opportunities. She has handled patent matters in a variety of life science fields, including precision medicine and diagnostics, biologic drugs, pharmaceuticals, immuno-oncology, stem cell technology, transgenic plants and cells, methods to screen and make gas-absorbing materials, molecular biology, nanotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, probe amplification assays, nutraceuticals, microbiology and devices for physical therapy. Norton has also advised clients on all facets of litigation involving technologies including diagnostics, biopharmaceuticals, transgenic organisms, small molecules and nanotechnology.
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