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Robert Gunther
Work Department
Intellectual Property Litigation; Litigation; Trials; Life Sciences; Big Data
Position
Partner
Career
Robert Gunther has over 35 years of experience as a trial lawyer representing life sciences, pharmaceutical and technology clients in intellectual property and technology litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Gunther is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and he has consistently been selected by Chambers USA, Managing IP magazine, LMG Life Sciences and IAM as a leading lawyer in the area of patent litigation.
Mr. Gunther has successfully tried patent, trademark, trade secret, license disputes and other intellectual property cases before numerous federal district courts, state courts and arbitration tribunals. He has also argued appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, litigated patent disputes before the US International Trade Commission and litigated inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Gunther has handled cases involving an array of technologies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, financial methodologies, petrochemical processes, computer hardware and software, telecommunications and networking, video game and graphic display hardware and software, optical discs and consumer products, among others. His intellectual property clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Affymetrix, Ariosa, Cephalon, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Eastman Kodak Company, Genentech, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mentor Graphics, Nintendo, Playtex Products, QinetiQ, Reckitt Benckiser, Roche Diabetes Care, Roche Molecular Systems, Sumitomo Electric, Swatch / Omega and WebMD.
Most recently, during May / June 2022, Mr. Gunther led a trial team that successfully defended Reckitt Benckiser against claims of fraud and trade secret misappropriation relating to an over-the-counter pharmaceutical product in federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Following a four week trial, the jury unanimously ruled in favor of Reckitt on all issues.
From 2018 to 2021, Mr. Gunther was a member of WilmerHale’s Management Committee.
Education
St. John’s University School of Law , J.D. (1984)
St. John’s University , B.A. (1981)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
With full-service capabilities and a global reach, WilmerHale‘s patent attorneys are praised by clients as ‘second to none in their ability to find the right strategies and execute them to win.‘ The firm’s intellectual property litigation practice is co-chaired by Mark Selwyn in Palo Alto, who represents major tech companies in multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional IP disputes, and Lisa Pirozzolo in Boston, who specializes in life sciences disputes and Hatch-Waxman cases. Also in Boston, William Lee is an expert trial and appellate lawyer in IP, Emily Whelan focuses on litigation in the chemistry, biotech and pharmaceuticals fields, Joseph Mueller specializes in IP cases with antitrust elements, and Michael Summersgill is praised as a ‘superlative trial lawyer.‘ New York-based Robert Gunther is a seasoned trial lawyer who has specialist knowledge in IP disputes in both the tech and life sciences industries, while litigator Sonal Mehta in Palo Alto represents clients primarily in tech-related patent disputes. The group also includes IP litigation specialists Brittany Amadi and Gregory Lantier in Washington DC as well as Omar Khan in New York, who focuses on the life sciences sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense