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Rachel Black is a partner at Susman Godfrey L.L.P., one of the nation's leading litigation boutique firms. Ms. Black focuses her national practice on high-stakes commercial litigation, devoting all of her time and talent to achieving excellent outcomes representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Ms. Black has significant trial and case management experience on cases covering a variety of subjects including intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, fraud, and accounting malpractice.

I was a Coast Guard Officer before entering the private practice of law.   I focus primarily on patent litigation including Inter Partes Reviews (IPR) and Covered Business Method Reviews (CBM).

I am an attorney, specializing in intellectual property litigation. I have a wonderful husband and a 4 year old son, Jacob, who is more fun than I ever could have imagined. Our second little boy, Matthew, is almost two, and he makes me smile every day.

Richard G. Greco is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried numerous patent infringement, general commercial, securities and criminal cases before judges and juries. He has argued appeals in federal and state courts. Mr. Greco has concentrated on patent infringement litigation for the past 25 years and has had extensive experience in complex patent litigation. He was a partner in the Kaye Scholer LLP patent litigation practice for fifteen years before commencing his own practice.. He has represented major pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology companies in litigations on patents claiming pharmaceutical compounds, recombinant proteins, pharmaceutical formulations, drug delivery systems, immunoassays and devices, nucleic acid testing, recombinant cell research tools, transgenic animals and processes for producing recombinant products. His work includes several challenges to abbreviated new drug applications on the world’s leading drugs. Outside the life sciences area, he has handled cases concerning catalysts, temperature measurement devices, jet engine fan blades, voice recorders with computer control capabilities and computer displays.  He has also consulted on anti-trust matters related to patent activities.. Examples of pharmaceutical and biotech litigations handled by Mr. Greco include Pfizer Inc v Mylan (Norvasc®);Pfizer Inc v Apotex, Inc (Norvasc®); Pfizer Inc v Synthon Labs (Norvasc®); University of Rochester v Pharmacia (a major precedent defining the written description requirement); Pfizer Inc v Siegfried Pharmaceuticals (Procardia®); Bayer AG v Barr Laboratories (Cipro®); Pfizer v Mylan Laboratories(Procardia XL®); Xoma Corp v Centocor Inc (anti-sepsis monoclonal antibody); and Spectral Diagnostics Inc v Biosite Diagnostics, Inc (antibody-based cardiac assay); Abbott Labs v. Biosite Diagnostics, Inc. (monoclonal based drug of abuse assay);  He has conducted several claim construction hearings, including a successful claim construction hearing in Chiron Corporation v F Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd concerning the pioneering hepatitis C virus cloning. Mr. Greco has consulted with counsel outside the United States to co-ordinate litigations of foreign counterparts of United States patents and has worked with Counsel in the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Canada, and Jamaica.. Mr. Greco has lectured on patent litigation topics to various professional groups and at in house programs including for Pfizer, Inc., sanofi-Aventis, Bristol Myers-Squibb, and Novartis.  He is a co-author of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law (PLI 2007).

F. Christopher Mizzo is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Washington, D.C. office.  His practice focuses on complex intellectual property litigation in the state and federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission, as well as counseling on technology-related matters.  Mr. Mizzo’s experience includes representing clients ranging from Fortune Global 500 companies to smaller technology companies in cases involving a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals (such as anti-hypertensive, anti-depressive, anti-cancer, anti-glaucoma and anti-HIV medications), biomedical devices, DRAM chips, cell phones, microchip manufacturing machines, and computer software and systems.  Mr. Mizzo received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering summa cum laude from Rutgers University in 1996 and his J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law in 1999.  Prior to joining Kirkland, Mr. Mizzo clerked for the Honorable William J. Martini in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.