Aaron is a registered patent attorney who concentrates his practice on patent litigation and counseling clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, advising on and overseeing global patent portfolios, and supporting clients’ business needs on a wide range of contracts and agreements.
Aaron counsels clients on pre-suit Paragraph IV strategies and handles all aspects of litigation, including trial, appeal, and settlements. He also has experience in IPR and PGR matters at the PTAB for both patent owners and challengers. In addition to litigation, Aaron’s practice includes providing clients with patentability, infringement, and invalidity analyses, as well as advice on global patent prosecution strategies in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields. He also supports his clients’ R&D and operations teams by drafting and negotiating license, supply, development, service, distribution, confidentiality, and other commercial agreements. Aaron has worked with clients in a wide range of technology fields, including fine chemicals, process chemistry, nanotechnology, semiconductor devices, display technologies, gene synthesis, recombinant DNA technology, diagnostic assays, and pharmaceuticals.
His representations of generic and biosimilar companies have included Abdi Ibrahim, Actavis, Alembic, Alkem, Alvotech, Amneal, Annora, Apotex, Aspiro, Aurobindo, Barr Labs, Hetero, InnoPharma, Mylan, Orchid, Par, Promius, Qilu, Rubicon, Sandoz, and Shandong Boan.
Prior to entering the legal field, Aaron was a senior research scientist at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he developed thin film precursors and deposition methods for use in flat panel displays, interconnects, and other high-tech applications (2001-2005), resulting in 18 issued patents. While earning his doctorate in chemistry at Northwestern University International Center for Nanotechnology and Department of Chemistry, he synthesized and studied light-absorbing organic molecules for use as molecular switching devices (1996-2001). He is a graduate of Georgetown Law and earned bachelor's degrees in chemistry and humanities, cum laude, from Seattle University.