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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
201 REDWOOD SHORES PARKWAY
REDWOOD SHORES, CA 94065
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mr Derek Walter
Position
Partner
Career
Derek Walter focuses on patent litigation related to technologies in the biological and chemical disciplines. He has worked on both the plaintiff and defense side in matters relating to DNA sequencing technology, noninvasive fetal diagnostic techniques, microfluidics, organ transplant monitoring, and cancer testing. He has represented clients before the International Trade Commission and in U.S. District Courts in all phases of patent litigation encompassing a wide range of technical areas, particularly life sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at UCLA, where he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Derek is the author of over a dozen scientific publications in areas including bacterial genetics, gas phase ion chemistry, and computational chemistry.
Education
University of Utah (B.S.), UCLA (M.S., Ph.D.), UC Berkeley Law (J.D.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
(Leading lawyers)United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
(Next Generation Partners)Working across offices in New York and California, the team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has a ‘wide and deep knowledge’ of life sciences related antitrust, IP, and M&A matters. The team often advises biotech, medical devices, and pharmaceutical companies on licensing agreements, commercial litigations, and false advertising issues. Edward Reines co-heads the practice from Silicon Valley, contributing his broad knowledge of willful patent infringement and contentious IP issues, while New York-based co-head Elizabeth Weiswasser is known for her focus on life science patent litigation, often appearing before the PRAB and ITC for pharmaceutical companies. Jeffrey Osterman and Charan Sandhu jointly lead the technology and IP transactions practice from New York, leveraging their expertise in joint developing agreements, strategic alliances, and technology transfer agreements. Based in Silicon Valley, Derek Walter is noted for his life sciences IP litigation capabilities.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Next Generation Partners United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
- Life sciences United States > Healthcare
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense