Overview

Bhanu K. Sadasivan, PhD, focuses her practice on patent litigation, with an emphasis in the life sciences industry. She has experience litigating patent cases concerning recombinant DNA technology, pharmaceutical formulation, computer hardware and software.

Prior to law school, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and was a recipient of the Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Bhanu is the co-author of several scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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Results

Representing 23andMe in litigation over a patent covering a method of finding relative relationships
Representing Quidel in a patent litigation over lateral flow assay method
Representing Amgen in a patent litigation matter over novel antibody therapeutics for the treatment of high LDL-cholesterol (Amgen v. Sanofi, et al., (D. Delaware))

Represented Ambry Genetics in an IPR proceeding that resulted in institution of two of the petitions before favorable settlement
Represented Ambry Genetics in a patent litigation case against Esoterix that resulted in a favorable settlement
Represented Depomed in a Hatch-Waxman litigation that resulted in the finding that the asserted claims from seven patents were valid and infringed upon
Represented Ambry Genetics in a patent litigation case against Myriad that resulted in a finding of lack of patentable subject matter under § 101
Represented APTwater and Stantec Consulting in a patent infringement case that resulted in a favorable claim construction ruling
Represented Alnylam in a patent infringement case where standing to file a lawsuit was successfully established

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Recognitions

Super Lawyers 2013 to 2014, Rising Star, IP litigation
The Legal 500 US 2019

Community

Asian Law Alliance, board member and previous board president

Credentials

Education
University of California – Berkeley School of Law, JD
Yale University, PhD, Immunology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, MS, Immunology, with honors
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, BSc, Human Biology, with honors

Admissions
California

Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US Patent and Trademark Office

Languages
English
Tamil

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