Stephen Rabinowitz named an Intellectual Property Trailblazer by the National Law Journal

Dechert’s New York-based IP partner Stephen Rabinowitz has been named an Intellectual Property Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. The publication’s Trailblazer series profiles lawyers who have acted as real agents of change in their field 

Rabinowitz, who first obtained a medical degree and a Ph.D. in Immunology before venturing into intellectual property law, has represented clients in a number of influential patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. By shaping some of the most important life-sciences patent decisions handed down in 20 years, he has exerted a game-changing impact on the U.S. patent landscape.

In KSR International v. Teleflex, a landmark 2007 case, the Supreme Court found in favor of Rabinowitz’s client, KSR, striking down decades of Federal Circuit decisions on the standard for finding patents invalid for obviousness. The decision was later described as the most cited Supreme Court patent case of the decade.

Representing ARIAD, Harvard University and MIT in a case concerning written description, Rabinowitz and his team persuaded the Federal Circuit to grant en banc review. The resulting decision established the leading precedent on how to apply the written description requirement in all technical fields.

Rabinowitz has also litigated patent cases concerning recombinant DNA technology, nucleic acid amplification, proteins, medical diagnostics, dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals, including Hatch-Waxman actions arising from Abbreviated New Drug Applications with Paragraph IV certifications.

The full National Law Journal Intellectual Property Trailblazer profile can be found here.

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