Liane M. Peterson is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's IP Litigation and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practices. Ms. Peterson has extensive experience handling patent litigation in U.S. District Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. She focuses her practice on complex litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields and has worked on a variety of disputes involving different technologies in the financial services, automotive, communications and electronics industries.
Ms. Peterson previously worked as a law clerk at the U.S. International Trade Commission in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations dealing with Section 337 investigations of unfair trade practices. Prior to law school she served as a research associate at The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md.
Ms. Peterson received her J.D., magna cum laude, from George Mason University School of Law (2003), where she was editor-in-chief of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal. She also graduated magna cum laude from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.S., biology, 1997).
Ms. Peterson is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Publications and Presentations:
· Managing E-Discovery in U.S. Patent Litigation," AIPPI Journal in Japan, Vol. 54, No. 10, 2009
· "Duty of Disclosure Requirements: Best Practice for Handling and Managing Disclosure Requirements," TACPI D.C. Round Table Seminar, December 18, 2009
· "Practical Steps to Address E-Discovery: New Battleground in U.S. IP Litigation," TACPI D.C. Round Table Seminar, August 27, 2009
· "Strategic Document Management for Corporate IP Practitioners," presented to NGB and clients in Japan, May 19, 2009
· "Proper Scope of ITC Remedies After Qualcomm," IPLaw360, October 22, 2008
Representative Cases:
· Pfizer Inc. et al. v. Kremers Urban, LLC, et al. (D. Del.)
· Sepracor Inc. et al. v. Pharmaceutical Associates, Inc. (D.N.J.)
· Schering Corp. v. Geopharma, Inc. (D.N.J.)
· Sanofi-Aventis v. Ebewe Pharma, (D.N.J.)
· DataTreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. (E.D. Tex.)
· Nextcard, LLC v. American Express Company et al. (E.D. Tex.)