DeAnn Smith

DeAnn Smith is a Partner at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. DeAnn provides worldwide patent counseling to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and academic and research institutions. She advises on matters relating to intellectual property portfolio strategy, including development, management and enforcement of intellectual assets. She has a global, strategic patent counseling and transaction practice that includes experience in the subspecialty of patent royalty monetization transactions. She routinely advises on worldwide patent term extension issues and is actively involved in procuring and enforcing Patent Term Extension (PTEs) in the US and Japan and Supplementary Patent Certificates (SPCs) in Europe. This includes working with patent counsel in all major European jurisdictions to obtain SPCs, including overseeing appeal litigation in European courts.

She has also been involved in numerous PTAB proceedings, EPO oppositions, and appeals and patent infringement matters, including Section 337 actions before the International Trade Commission. DeAnn graduated from University of Michigan School of Law and is admitted to the State Bars of Massachusetts and Michigan, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.