Associate

Shantelle L. LaFayette

Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Patent Litigation

Übersicht

Clients turn to Shantelle LaFayette for help navigating complex intellectual property disputes and transactions, particularly focused on the life sciences sector.

Erfahrung

Representative Experience

Litigation

  • Represented a clean medicine company in a successful post-grant challenge of a pharmaceutical patent before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Represents a clean medicine company in a district court patent infringement litigation involving organic over-the-counter children’s and infant medicines.
  • Supported the representation of a global coffee company in multiple inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board relating to coffee systems and capsules.
  • Supports the defense of an audio entertainment streaming company in a multi-million dollar district court copyright infringement action.

Ausbildung

  • University of Toronto, BS, with honors, Molecular Biology, conferred with Highest Distinction
  • University of Toronto, MS, Molecular Genetics
  • McGill University, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology
  • McGill University Faculty of Law, JD and BCL

Zulassungen

  • New York
  • Ontario, Canada
  • Quebec

Courts

  • US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Sprachen

  • Englisch
  • Französisch
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