Biography: Patents

Mr Figg is a principal of Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck in Washington, DC. He specialises in intellectual property law, focusing on patent litigation and interferences, patent procurement, intellectual property licensing and related contract matters, opinions and counselling.

Mr Figg has served as lead counsel in a large number of complex patent litigations in federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, as well as appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Brief synopses of many of these cases may be found at his firm's website. Mr Figg litigated some of the first cases arising out of the Hatch-Waxman amendment and continues to handle such cases on a regular basis.

Mr Figg was selected as DC Lawyer of the Year for Intellectual Property Law in 2011 by Best Lawyers in America, has been listed among Washington's best IP lawyers in The Washingtonian, and has been included in 'Washington, DC Super Lawyers' list, published by Law & Politics. He also has been included in IAM Life Sciences 250 list of leading life sciences patent litigators.

He has chaired the section of intellectual property law of the American Bar Association, is a former member of the ABA's standing committee on amicus curiae briefs and has chaired numerous committees and divisions of the IPL section, including its amicus briefs committee and patent law reform task force. He is also a member of American Intellectual Property Law Association, the executive committee of AIPPI United States and the District of Columbia Bar, a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.