A Shareholder at McAndrews, Sanjay Murthy is a nationally recognized trial attorney who has been involved in more than 17 trials. Sanjay has been honored as a leading practitioner by a number of publications, including The American Lawyer (“Litigator of the Week”), Best Lawyers, IAM Patent 1000, The Legal 500, Managing Intellectual Property, Lawdragon, LMG Life Sciences, and Crain’s Chicago Business.

Sanjay has deep experience representing leading life science and technology companies in a broad range of intellectual property disputes in federal district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in Section 337 investigations in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition to an active litigation practice, he manages patent portfolios for several leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He also leverages his trial experience to assist his clients with EPO opposition proceedings, freedom-to-operate matters, due diligence investigations, patent portfolio audits, and licensing and collaboration transactions. He also has significant experience working on trade secret matters, unfair competition claims, trademark infringement, and employee mobility issues. For the last seven years, Sanjay has served on the faculty for Practicing Law Institute’s “Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law” conference. He has also been invited to speak on IP-related ethics issues by the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Intellectual Property Owners, and the legal departments of multiple global companies.

Sanjay works with many technologies, such as pharmaceuticals (e.g., small molecules, antibodies, animal vaccines, and diagnostics), medical devices (e.g., implantable pulse generators, dialysis machines, drug infusion pumps, and stent grafts), methods for manufacturing recombinant proteins (e.g., Factor VIII and alpha-1 antitrypsin), cell-based therapeutics (CAR-T cells, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, and stem cells), organic/polymer chemistry, power tools, oil drilling fluids, digital cameras, smart phones, and automotive components.

Sanjay has an active pro bono practice. He has worked to reunite children separated from their parents by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), force the release of numerous families detained by ICE in facilities threatened by COVID-19, and obtain significant monetary settlements for prisoners in civil rights cases.