Andrew is a patent attorney in Merchant & Gould’s New York office, who focuses his practice on Hatch-Waxman litigation, contested matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and general IP counseling. . Andrew primarily assists clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries with developing and strengthening their patent estates and their overall litigation strategy, including pre-litigation counseling, fact and expert discovery, claim construction analysis, deposition and motion practice, and assistance at trial. He also dedicates significant time to inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, freedom-to-operate, validity and infringement investigations, and due diligence, as well as patent procurement and life cycle management advice for a wide range of industries.
Throughout his academic and legal career, Andrew has developed extensive technical and legal training within multiple disciplines, including organic, medicinal, organometallic and polymer chemistry, which provides him with a thorough, and oftentimes unique, perspective on navigating the IP landscape. This diverse experience set has proven invaluable to his practice in technical areas such as new chemical entities, pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical dosage form design, methods for treating disease, x-ray crystallography and solid-state polymorphism, antibodies, diversity oriented synthesis and drug development using large chemical libraries, transition metal catalysis, medical devices, CNTs and other nanotechnology, semi-conductors, and LCD and LED displays technologies.
Prior to joining Merchant & Gould, Andrew was a patent agent at an intellectual property law firm in New York. He was also a recipient of the NIH Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for postdoctoral studies in organic chemistry directed to catalytic and enantioselective synthesis techniques and their application to the total synthesis of complex natural product targets. During his graduate work at The University of North Carolina, Andrew researched approaches to asymmetric synthesis using polymer supported transition metal catalyst systems and the concept of molecular imprinting.
Andrew enjoys technical scuba diving, photography, philosophy, cycling, music and the great outdoors.