Ben Bourke is a registered patent attorney in the San Francisco office of Womble Bond Dickinson. Ben primarily represents life sciences patent holders in Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) and related patent litigation. Ben has represented various clients in patent litigation in front of district courts, the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission. Ben has supported efforts to assess the merits of litigation before filing suit, assisted in the management of large scale e-discovery both in the United States and abroad, and participated in fact and expert discovery, as well as trial work. Ben has interviewed inventors to formulate invention stories, as well as prepared potential corporate designees and experts for depositions and trial testimony. Ben is regularly called upon to draft pleadings, discovery requests, infringement and invalidity contentions, and expert reports, as well as assist with depositions, direct and cross-examinations, among other litigation duties.
