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Deborah A. Laughton

dlaughton@mcandrews-ip.com
312.775.8000

Deborah A. Laughton Shareholder

312.775.8000

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  • Related Experience
  • Professional & Community Involvement
  • Honors & Awards

Deborah Laughton is a Shareholder at McAndrews. She counsels clients in a wide range of intellectual property areas, including providing guidance on patent application preparation, prosecution, and portfolio management. She has extensive patent litigation experience, and has counseled clients through all phases of disputes including pre-suit investigation, fact and expert discovery, claim construction, summary judgment, trial, post-trial, and appeals before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is also intimately involved with due diligence investigations and frequently provides intellectual property guidance in connection with corporate transactions.

Deborah has also represented clients before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board as part of inter partes review proceedings. She serves as strategic patent advisor for clients that range from a leading provider of playground equipment and recreational products to a provider of aerospace and industrial engine controls, and a software company serving radiation oncology centers worldwide.

Deborah has also worked with diverse products and technologies including orthopedic implants and components, surgical suction irrigators, drug-eluting stents, pediatric hospital beds, nerve imaging technology, vertebroplasty and balloon-assisted vertebroplasty, medical image capture systems, surgical fluid waste management systems, self-sealing valves, climbing walls, and swimming starting blocks and timing systems.

For every matter, Deborah immerses herself in the client’s business and technology in order to provide ongoing analysis and effective legal arguments and strategies that protect and further develop client investments and technologies. She recently represented one of the world’s most innovative medical device companies in a major patent infringement lawsuit that resulted in a favorable jury verdict of $70 million, a finding that all asserted patents were valid and willfully infringed, and an injunction and treble damages following post-trial motions. Her involvement in the case also helped to secure an affirmance of patent validity, infringement, and lost profits from the Federal Circuit. She was additionally part of the team that successfully represented the client before the United States Supreme Court as the Court reviewed the standard for awarding enhanced damages for patent infringement.  She then further helped reinstate the client’s award of treble damages, as well as an affirmance of the award from the Federal Circuit.

 

EDUCATION

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. High Honors, Order of the Coif
  • University of Illinois, B.S. Nuclear Engineering

BAR ADMISSIONS/REGISTRATIONS

  • Illinois
  • United States Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. High Honors, Order of the Coif
  • University of Illinois, B.S. Nuclear Engineering

Practices

  • IP Transactions
  • IP Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Post-Grant Practice
  • Trademarks & Copyrights

Bar Admissions/Registrations

  • Illinois
  • United States Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Industries

  • Computer & Electronics Technology
  • Industrial & Mechanical
  • Medical Devices

Related Experience

  • Nuclear Engineer at Exelon, Nuclear Fuel Management Group

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Board Member, The Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms
  • Advisory Board Member, University of Illinois Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
  • Board Member, University of Illinois, College of Engineering Board of Visitors
  • Member, American Nuclear Society – National and Chicago Section Branches
  • Member, Alpha Nu Sigma National Honor Society

Honors & Awards

  • University of Illinois Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering Advocate Award, 2013 Recipient
  • University of Illinois Alumni Association Loyalty Award, 2010 Recipient

Practices

  • IP Transactions
  • IP Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Post-Grant Practice
  • Trademarks & Copyrights

Industries

  • Computer & Electronics Technology
  • Industrial & Mechanical
  • Medical Devices
  • Nuclear Engineer at Exelon, Nuclear Fuel Management Group
  • Board Member, The Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms
  • Advisory Board Member, University of Illinois Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
  • Board Member, University of Illinois, College of Engineering Board of Visitors
  • Member, American Nuclear Society – National and Chicago Section Branches
  • Member, Alpha Nu Sigma National Honor Society
  • University of Illinois Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering Advocate Award, 2013 Recipient
  • University of Illinois Alumni Association Loyalty Award, 2010 Recipient
 

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