Gary is a registered US patent attorney with a focus on issues facing companies in the life sciences sectors. He is a patent litigator who provides counsel on a broad range of patent-related matters and regularly conducts pre-suit investigations, intellectual property valuations and IP due diligence. Gary provides freedom-to-operate clearance reviews and opinions relating to infringement and validity and develops patent procurement and patent prosecution strategies for domestic, international, and foreign jurisdictions. He has been involved in numerous post-grant proceedings (e.g., ex parté reexaminations and inter partes reviews) in front of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The post-grant proceedings have involved patents across diverse technology areas (e.g., medical devices, drug delivery systems, polymers, pharmaceuticals, new chemical entities, and process manufacturing).

Gary has a strong technical and scientific background and extensive firsthand experience in USPTO practice and procedure. For the past several years, Gary has devoted significant time to preparing opinions relating to pharmaceutical patents and has prepared and served numerous Hatch Waxman “Paragraph IV” notice letters and detailed statements. He also has represented generic pharmaceutical companies in ANDA patent litigations.

In addition to his work in the pharmaceutical arena, Gary’s practice covers a variety of other technologies, including medical devices, drug delivery systems, natural products, nutraceuticals, polymers, biofuels, renewable energy, sustainable chemistry, process manufacturing, solar silicon purification, agriculture, pesticides and organic synthesis.

After earning his graduate degree in chemistry, Gary worked as a medicinal chemist at Sterling Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, where he designed and synthesized candidate inhibitors of the cysteine protease enzyme, Interleukin–1–ß Converting Enzyme (ICE), for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. During law school, Gary worked as a law clerk in the patent group at SmithKline Beecham (now Glaxo SmithKline).

Gary has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals and is a named inventor on several US patents. He has been an invited lecturer in the United States, Europe, and Asia on various IP matters, including freedom to operate, Paragraph IV opinions and IP valuation. He is also the owner and moderator of the Freedom to Operate (FTO) and IP Due Diligence discussion group on LinkedIn. In 2004, he was named by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star.”  Gary is listed in the 2020 – 2023 Best Lawyers® in America annual editions.