Paul Hastings LLP

Intellectual Property

Eric W. Dittmann is global co-chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings, where he oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP group. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading IP litigators, Eric possesses extensive first-chair experience representing clients in patent litigations, post-grant proceedings, arbitrations, and appellate disputes across a wide range of technologies, with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. He is regularly trusted by some of the world’s most prominent companies to lead their most critical and business-defining IP disputes. Clients praise him as “an excellent attorney who brings a brilliant strategic mind to every issue” and “an excellent strategist and litigator” (Chambers USA 2025 — Intellectual Property: Patent).