Sharon K. Gagliardi represents clients in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation, primarily involving patent and trade secret claims. Her practice spans a wide spectrum of technology areas, with a particular focus on life sciences.

Ms. Gagliardi has managed a significant number of patent litigations in federal courts throughout the United States for various multinational companies, including Endo Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Baxter, Hitachi, PepsiCo, and others. She has extensive experience litigating Hatch-Waxman Act ANDA infringement actions on behalf of branded pharmaceutical companies, and has handled all phases of litigation including drafting complaints and answers, preparing infringement contentions, managing electronic discovery, Markman briefing and hearings, working with infringement and validity experts, drafting motions and declarations, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, supervising pretrial filings, and managing trial teams. Moreover, in 2014, Ms. Gagliardi was honored with Dechert’s Exceptional Teacher Award for her commitment to training and developing associates.

In addition to her extensive patent litigation practice, Ms. Gagliardi also has substantial experience in the areas of trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, cyberlaw, non-competition agreements, and the intersection of antitrust law and patent law. Ms. Gagliardi also has substantial experience representing companies and individuals involved in criminal and other government investigations and related civil litigation, including investigations and litigation under the False Claims Act, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, and the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Ms. Gagliardi maintains an active pro bono practice, defending the rights of victims whose civil liberties have been violated and assisting individuals in immigration and family law matters. In 2007, Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP) honored Ms. Gagliardi as Philadelphia VIP’s November Volunteer of the Month. Additionally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children presented Ms. Gagliardi an Award of Merit for her work in successfully returning a child to his father in a case brought pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Ms. Gagliardi has served as a member of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Chemical Society. She served as a Steering Committee Member for the Wake Forest Friends of Chemistry from 2010-2013. During law school, Ms. Gagliardi interned for the Honorable Stephen M. Orlofsky of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Gagliardi completed a National Science Foundation research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Materials Science.