Profile: David T Pritikin

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David T Pritikin is a partner in Sidley's Chicago office, chairs the firm's national intellectual property practice and is a member of the firm's executive committee. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has an active practice concentrated in the field of intellectual property. Mr Pritikin has served as lead counsel in many high profile patent cases, including more than a dozen Hatch-Waxman cases involving important pharmaceutical products. In addition, he has represented software, semiconductor and medical device manufacturers in patent lawsuits.

His experience includes jury and bench trials in the federal courts, as well as trials in the International Trade Commission and arguments before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr Pritikin also maintains a civil litigation practice involving antitrust and other commercial cases. He has lectured on antitrust and intellectual property matters at the PLI intellectual property antitrust programme and at the AIPLA, and he has been named in the Chambers USA list of leading intellectual property lawyers. He graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1974, and received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Cornell University in 1971, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.