Chiemi Suzuki is a counsel in the New York office of Crowell & Moring.  She is a member of the Intellectual Property Group, where her practice focuses on patent litigation, primarily relating to pharmaceutical litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act at the district court and appellate levels. 

Chiemi handles all aspects of patent litigation, from pre-suit investigations, through discovery, Markman proceedings, summary judgment motions, trials, and appeals.  Her experience litigating Hatch-Waxman cases on behalf of both generic (first filers and later filers) and innovator pharmaceutical companies gives her unique perspective on the drug-approval provisions under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.  This insight provides her with the ability to develop and implement pragmatic case strategies and case management plans.  Chiemi's experience includes litigating the patents covering the drug products Fentora® (fentanyl citrate), Adderall XR® (mixed amphetamine salts), and Carbatrol® (carbamazepine), among others.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Chiemi was an associate at an intellectual property firm, where her practice focused on patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act.  Before that, Chiemi worked in technology transfer at the Office of Industrial Liaison at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has also performed research in the areas of biology and chemical engineering. The results of her research are published in the journal Langmuir.

Chiemi earned her B.A. in Biology with a minor in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. in Biotechnology from Columbia University. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law where she was a member of the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent) and earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award and Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Chiemi is admitted to the New York and California bars.  She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as various federal district courts.

Representative matters include the following:

• Cephalon Inc.  v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al., No. 08-330 and 09-724 (D. Del.), as a core member of the trial team representing Watson in a patent infringement case concerning Watson's ANDA for a generic version of Fentora® (fentanyl citrate).
• Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., No. 10-6, as Counsel of Record for the Federal Circuit Bar Association in a Brief of Amicus Curiae before the Supreme Court concerning the legal standard for the state of mind element of a claim for actively inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b).
• Shire LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., No. 2009-1180 (Fed. Cir.), representing appellee in an interlocutory appeal concerning whether stare decisis applies to a previous court’s unappealed claim construction decision.