PHILADELPHIA, July 22, 2025―Duane Morris LLP attorneys Anthony J. Fitzpatrick and Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D., have been shortlisted for the Legal Media Group (LMG) 2025 Americas Awards. Winners will be announced on September 4, 2025.
The categories include:
Anthony J. Fitzpatrick – General Patent Litigator of the Year – New England
Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D. – Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – California
The LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards recognize the region’s most distinguished practitioners and their firms for their exemplary work in the life sciences legal practice over the past 12 months. The awards ceremony honors the law firms, lawyers and in-house teams who have led in key practice-focus areas within the life sciences industry.
Anthony J. Fitzpatrick is chair of the Patent Litigation Division of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. His practice focuses on patent, trade secret and other technology-related litigation. Fitzpatrick has extensive experience as lead counsel at trials in federal and state courts and in arbitration. He has also argued on multiple occasions before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO.
Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D., has advised life sciences clients for 25 years, devising strategies for clients to successfully counter patent claims and demands totaling over $2 billion, performing IP diligence for transactions, product clearances and at-the-market offerings collectively worth over $4 billion, and formulating worldwide patent strategies for clients entering public markets with total valuations of over $6 billion. Norton also audits technology portfolios and identifies patent coverage issues for her clients’ transactions, venture financings and patent enforcement opportunities. She has handled patent matters in a variety of life science fields, including precision medicine and diagnostics, biologic drugs, pharmaceuticals, immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine and stem cell technologies, transgenic plants and cells, molecular biology, nanotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, probe amplification assays, nutraceuticals, microbiology and devices for physical therapy.
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