For nearly 20 years, Dov Grossman has been litigating patent matters on behalf of some of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies to protect their most important products. An accomplished trial lawyer with a background in chemistry—including medicinal chemistry—Dov has served as lead counsel in a variety of biopharmaceutical disputes, both in federal district court and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He has extensive experience litigating Hatch-Waxman disputes for successful branded products, from the pre-litigation phase through trial and appeal. Dov has also represented clients in various brand v. brand disputes, both in the biotechnology space and involving small molecule patents. Biopharmaceutical companies frequently rely on Dov to help coordinate global patent litigation involving patents in the U.S. and abroad.
In addition to pharmaceutical-related matters, Dov has litigated patent cases in the medical device and telecommunications industries. He also has advised clients on the negotiation of patent licensing agreements, including as the lead outside attorney handling the negotiations.
Since 2021, Dov has been recognized as a leading intellectual property attorney by IAM Patent 1000:The World’s Leading Patent Professionals, and beginning in 2023, he has also been recognized by both Benchmark Litigation and Managing Intellectual Property for his work in the patent space. In July 2023, The National Law Journal recognized Dov as an Emerging Therapies/Life Sciences Trailblazer for his representation of Pfizer in inter partes review proceedings relating to Pfizer’s first gene therapy product.
Dov, who speaks Hebrew as well as English, grew up in Los Angeles. Dov earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago, where he was articles editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Dov clerked for Judge William C. Bryson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He received his A.B. in chemistry, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1997, and an M.Sc. in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1999. Aspects of his Weizmann research were published in Letters in Peptide Science in 2002 (“Potentiating Vanadium-Evoked Glucose Metabolism by Novel Hydroxamate Derivatives”). Dov joined Williams & Connolly in 2004.
Updated Sep 2023
