Mr. Chandran Iyer is an attorney in the Washington, DC office of Sughrue Mion, PLLC. Mr. Iyer practices in the area of patent law with a focus on patent litigation. Mr. Iyer, a registered patent attorney, has extensive experience litigating before various federal and state courts. His experience includes patent infringement cases relating to pharmaceutical products, orthopedic implants and other medical devices, computer software and security, and computer graphics.
Bars
New York
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D. 2000)
Brandeis University (B.A. Biology,
with honors 1996)
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Sughrue, Mr. Iyer was a litigation associate at a large international law firm where he practiced in the area of patent litigation. His experience includes taking and defending depositions of fact witnesses and expert witnesses, preparing claim construction briefs and summary judgment briefs.
Associations
ABA - Litigation and Co-Vice Chair of the Science and Technology Section, Nanotechnology Committee for 2008-2009.
AIPLA -American Intellectual Property Law Association
Publications and Teaching
Patent Reform Act 2011: Summary of Post-Grant Review Proceedings
ANDA Litigation: The Pitfalls of the Paragraph IV Certification After Takeda v. Mylan
ANDA Litigation: The Pitfalls Of the Paragraph IV Certification
“Patenting Nanotechnology” presented at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, March 2008.
“Pharmaceutical Patents After KSR” presented at Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Gurgaon, India, March 2008.
“Discovery during Patent Litigation” presented at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, New Delhi, India, March 2008.
“U.S. Patent Litigation Primer” presented at K&S Partners, Bangalore, India, March 2008.
Slow Down Before Accelerating: Litigation Ramifications of Accelerated Examination Procedure, The SciTech Lawyer, Summer 2007 (Vol. 4, No. 1).
MRP3, a new ATP-binding cassette protein localized to the canalicular domain of the hepatocyte, American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 276, Issue 6, 1493-1500, June 1999