Sapna Palla#9277

Sapna Palla

Partner, A&O Shearman
Sapna has spent over two decades representing clients in patent, trademark, copyright, and complex commercial matters, including successfully litigating disputes in a range of jurisdictions. She also has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. Sapna also counsels and represents a variety of U.S. and international clients regarding U.S. intellectual property by providing them with infringement, validity, enforceability, and clearance opinions and by advising them in licensing and antitrust matters. She has also conducted intellectual property due diligence investigations in connection with acquisitions and licensing deals. Sapna also counsels clients about patent law in Asia, including China and India. Sapna’s patent experience covers a broad array of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, drug delivery systems, software, mechanical devices, batteries, and agrochemicals. Outside the patent area, she has represented clients in trademark, trade dress, and copyright litigation as well as in counseling clients on trademark and copyright registration, strategy, and licensing. Sapna has also handled a number of complex commercial disputes involving complex contractual matters in the oil, renewable energy, construction, and food services industries.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2001

Experience

  • Wiggin & Dana LLP (Mar 2014 - Jul 2021)
  • Kaye & Scholer (Jan 2007 - Feb 2014)
  • The Honorable Robert J. Hurley, US District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jun 2017 - Aug 1997)

Membership

  • Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY)
  • American Bar Association
  • Intellectual Property American Inns of Court
  • New York Intellectual Property Association

Qualifications

  • US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2006)
  • US District Court, Southern District of New York (2005)
  • Bar of the State of New York (2001)

Education

  • Pace University School of Law (1998)
  • Pace University (1995)

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