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Would-Be Competitors Come Together to Increase the Number of Women Sitting First-Chair in IP Cases

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Daralyn Durie was quoted in the ALM Litigation Daily article covering the Lead Counsel Summit, a new organization formed by in-house intellectual property counsel and established first-chair trial lawyers to support and mentor other IP women attorneys to lead high-stakes trials and appeals as first chair in IP litigation cases.

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Daralyn Durie and Ching-Lee Fukuda were quoted in the ALM Litigation Daily article covering the<a href="https://www.leadcounselsummit.com/" target="_blank"> Lead Counsel Summit</a>, a new organization formed by in-house intellectual property counsel and established first-chair trial lawyers to support and mentor other IP women attorneys to lead high-stakes trials and appeals as first chair in IP litigation cases.Daralyn said, “I am a very firm believer that you’re never going to have equality until you actually have equality. You need to see women in the lead role in order for women to see themselves being capable of being in the lead role.”Ching-Lee said, “My goal when I pull together a trial team is I want there to be somebody on the trial team that resonates with everybody in the jury. … I think that cuts across gender. That cuts across age, experience, geographical locations.”Read the <a href="https://www.law.com/litigationdaily/2024/08/20/would-be-competitors-come-together-to-increase-the-number-of-women-sitting-first-chair-in-ip-cases/" target="_blank">article</a>. (subscription required)

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Daralyn Durie is among the top trial lawyers in the country, acting as go-to trial counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants. Daralyn’s exceptional track record has earned her consistent recognition from leading national publications. Chambers has listed her among the top 10 intellectual property lawyers in the U.S. and Law360 has recognized her as an “Icon of IP” and an MVP. Benchmark Litigation reported that “going against her was like going against a boxer in which you know you’re going to get hurt.” She’s a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and an inductee into the California Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame.Daralyn’s legal career began at Berkeley Law, followed by a clerkship for the Honorable Douglas Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She became a partner at a litigation boutique in 1999 and, in 2009, co-founded Durie Tangri, a premier litigation boutique that later combined with Morrison Foerster in 2023.In addition to her courtroom successes, Daralyn is actively involved in the legal community. She is a board member of the National Women’s Law Center, a past president of the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and served as an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law, where she taught civil trial advocacy.Life SciencesDaralyn has decades of experience in the life sciences sector. She spearheaded the enforcement of Genentech’s Cabilly family of patents, which generated billions of dollars in licensing revenue. She served as lead counsel in the Herceptin biosimilar litigation and recently achieved a plaintiff-side jury verdict of $178 million in a patent infringement case involving melanoma therapy.TechnologyIn the tech sector, Daralyn recently won defense jury verdicts for Aptiv (USB hubs), Activision (in the Eastern District of Texas), and Redbubble. She served as lead counsel for Google, defending Google Books from copyright infringement claims. Following extensive litigation on copyright and antitrust issues, Google prevailed on summary judgment, resulting in Daralyn being named an Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine.

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Ching-Lee Fukuda is a New York-based partner in Morrison Foerster’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group and a nationally recognized IP trial lawyer, with nearly three decades of experience handling high-stakes patent and trade secret litigation. She represents clients in complex IP disputes before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, PTAB, the Federal Circuit, and various arbitration tribunals.Ching-Lee’s practice focuses on cutting-edge technologies in medical devices and medtech, software, electronics, and chemicals. She has secured significant trial and appellate victories, including high-value jury verdicts and precedent-setting Federal Circuit decisions:<ul><li>Ching-Lee led a damages trial team for Bayer that secured a jury award of $155 million, which ranks among the top 10 largest patent verdicts in Delaware.</li><li>She successfully defended Nevro in a six-year litigation saga against Boston Scientific’s assertion of 20 patents and more than 60 trade secrets, with Boston Scientific ultimately paying Nevro $85 million.</li><li>She led an appellate team for CardioNet that obtained a rare Federal Circuit precedential opinion reversing the district court to uphold the patent eligibility of a software patent directed to cardiac monitoring technology.</li></ul>Ching-Lee has also led IP arbitration teams and has handled more than 100 PTAB proceedings, including inter partes reviews (IPRs) and post-grant reviews (PGRs), representing both patent owners and challengers.In addition to her litigation practice, Ching-Lee has been a member of Law360’s Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board, a member of ACI’s Advisory Board for Women Leaders in IP Law, and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. In 2023, Ching-Lee became a founding member of Lead Counsel Summit, a non-profit organization that trains and supports IP litigators who are on the cusp of serving as lead counsel, to help them master the courtroom, clients, and team skills needed to move from second-chair to first-chair roles. Since 2022, she has been the author of the treatise, Winning the Patent Damages Case, published by Matthew Bender (LexisNexis).Clients highlight Ching-Lee’s formidable courtroom presence and sharp analytical approach, emphasizing her ability to deliver successful outcomes in particularly challenging matters. She has received a range of industry honors, including the following:<ul><li>Ranked by Chambers USA for IP: Patent in New York and Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation Nationwide, and by Chambers Global for Life Sciences IP/Patent Litigation</li><li>Named “Patent Lawyer of the Year” by Women in Business Law Americas in 2024.</li><li>Four times shortlisted by Managing IP for “Litigator of the Year – New York” (2021, 2023, 2025, 2026).</li><li>Recognized by LMG Life Sciences as “Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year” for two consecutive years (2020-2021).</li><li>Earned four “Impact Case of the Year” distinctions from LMG Life Sciences and inclusion in the National Law Journal Verdicts Hall of Fame (2021) and Top 10 Commercial Litigation Verdicts in the United States (2019).</li></ul>Ching-Lee earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and her B.S.E., with honors, in mechanical and aerospace engineering, from Princeton University.

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