Liane M. Peterson is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Ms. Peterson has extensive experience handling patent litigation in U.S. District Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. She focuses her practice on complex litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields, with a particular focus on Hatch-Waxman litigation. Ms. Peterson also has significant experience handling patent litigation for clients in the electronics, semiconductor, financial services, flat glass, automotive, and communications industries. She is a vice chair of the firm’s IP Litigation Practice and member of the Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice. She is also a member of the Life Sciences Industry Team.
Ms. Peterson previously worked as a law clerk at the U.S. International Trade Commission in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations dealing with Section 337 investigations of unfair trade practices involving intellectual property rights. Prior to law school she served as a researcher at The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md.
