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WilmerHale Offices
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250 GREENWICH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10007
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David Bassett
Work Department
Litigation ; Intellectual Property Litigation ; Trials ; Life Sciences
Career
David Bassett is a nationally recognized intellectual property litigation lawyer. He is based in the firm’s New York office and is the former chair of the firm’s Associates Committee and of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Mr. Bassett’s practice concentrates on intellectual property litigation, particularly on biotechnology, pharmaceutical and Hatch-Waxman patent disputes. He also represents clients in a wide variety of other business disputes, including breach of contract, Lanham Act and Internet-related claims. His intellectual property litigation clients have included Gilead Sciences, Shionogi, Foundation Medicine, Precision BioScience, Actavis, Braintree Laboratories, Forest (Allergan) and many others. His practice has covered all facets of litigation, including discovery, settlement, alternative dispute resolution, IPRs, trials and appeals. Mr. Bassett has been lead trial lawyer in more than a dozen patent trials (both bench and jury), and has appeared before the Courts of Appeals for the First and Federal Circuits. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, LMG Life Sciences and IAM Patent 1000.
Memberships
- New York
- Massachusetts
- Indiana
Education
JD, Harvard Law School, 1987
BA, Indiana University, 1984
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
WilmerHale’s primarily Boston-based team advises a range of clients, including diagnostic and medical device corporates, universities and research institutions, and investment banks. Practice co-chair Stuart Falber advises a range of public life science companies on capital markets related matters, while fellow co-chair Lisa Pirozzolo acts in Hatch-Waxman cases and licensing disputes, often appearing before the ITC and the PTAB. Based in New York, David Bassett has an IP litigation focused practice, and often contends with biotech and pharmaceutical patent disputes alongside Robert Gunther, who also handles trade secret cases before arbitration tribunals. Sarah Hogan focuses on the life sciences and digital health industries, and has a great deal of experience in the negotiation of IP licenses and strategic collaborations.
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 > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
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
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Government > Government relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation