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Senior Director, Patent Attorney,Administration & Management - Legal

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Partner and Litigation Department Co-Chair

Cantor Colburn

Steve Coyle is a Partner and co-chairs the firm's Litigation Department. He is a trial lawyer with more than 20 years' experience in litigating and trying complex disputed matters, and he has specialized in patent and all varieties of intellectual property litigation for the past 15 years. Steve’s areas of focus include ANDA and Hatch-Waxman litigation, where he has represented the rights of generic drug manufacturers and helped them to bring products to market. He is also the Chair of Cantor Colburn’s Pharmaceutical Litigation Practice. Steve represents clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of other patent matters, involving such diverse technologies as software, cybersecurity, fiber optics, induction lighting, microwave circuit boards, robotic measurement equipment, media packaging, flexible gas piping, and telecommunications. Steve has substantial experience litigating trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters as well. He has tried and litigated patent and other intellectual property cases throughout the country, and he has represented clients in alternative dispute resolution forums such as arbitrations and mediations. Steve has also handled multiple appeals, including before the Federal Circuit. In all of his cases, Steve strives to develop and follow a pragmatic strategy that advances not only his clients’ short term litigation goals but also their long term business needs.

Partner and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group

Goldberg Segalla

Ron Daignault, partner and co-chair of Goldberg Segalla's Intellectual Property Practice, is a trial attorney with over 25 years of experience and an intellectual property litigator. Widely respected as a pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman and Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigator for both generic and branded drug companies, Ron has guided clients through litigation involving dozens of patents, products, formulations and designs, and methods of use. Ron has been involved in numerous bench and jury trials and evidentiary hearings, serving as lead counsel or second chair in most of them, and has also argued before several U.S. Courts of Appeals and the New York State Appellate Division.

A frequent writer and speaker on topics in the field of intellectual property, Ron has held a spot on the New York Metro Super Lawyers list consistently since 2012, and Managing Intellectual Property has recognized him as a “Star” in both Life Sciences and Intellectual Property every year since 2013. He currently serves as an Advisory Board member of Bloomberg/BNA's Life Sciences Law and Industry Report and an Amicus Committee member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association.

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