SAN DIEGO, September 5, 2024―Duane Morris Partner Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D., has been named Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year for California by LMG Life Sciences. The 12th annual Legal Media Group Life Sciences Americas Awards highlight the best in regulatory, corporate, intellectual property and litigation legal practices following a thorough survey of life sciences sector practitioners and teams in the United States, Canada and Brazil. Nominations and winners are determined through a rigorous research process that aims to recognize complex and innovative work in this sector over a 12-month period.
Norton serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Industry Group and is chair of the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Division of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. She 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 is a 1994 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where she was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif, and a graduate of the University of California, Davis (Ph.D., biochemistry and biophysics; B.S., summa cum laude, biochemistry).
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