Robert D. Bajefsky

Partner

Robert Bajefsky has more than 30 years of experience handling patent litigations involving biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical issues. He represents clients at both the trial and appellate levels, and also counsels clients on pre- and post-trial strategy. He has rendered a broad array of validity, infringement, and enforceability opinions on patents related to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. As outgrowths of litigations, he has also represented clients in reissue and reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Bajefsky has represented Fortune 500 companies, international industry leaders, as well as, smaller innovative businesses in lawsuits in federal district courts throughout the U.S., and has coordinated parallel litigations in various European countries. He has helped protect clients’ valuable interests in technologies ranging from recombinant pharmaceuticals such as human growth hormones and groundbreaking treatments for arthritis; research tool patents such as HIV protease inhibitor patents; and small molecules used to treat a wide range of diseases ranging from depression to hypertension to allergies.

Mr. Bajefsky has also defended clients’ interests in numerous Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigations. He has also served as lead counsel in successful appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in which the court affirmed summary judgments obtained in the trial courts.

Professional Recognition

• Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2012.
• Recognized as a leading patent litigator in the D.C. area by Intellectual Asset Management, 2011.
• Recognized as a leader in the field of life sciences in the intellectual property category in the U.S. and highly recommended in the intellectual property field in Washington, D.C. by Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer, 2010.

Professional Activities

• District of Columbia Bar
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• American Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Biting the Hand That Feeds?: Generic Drugs and Abuse of the Hatch-Waxman Law," Legal Backgrounder, Dec. 2002.
• Coauthor. "Can the Attorney Who Prepares a Validity or Infringement Opinion Serve as a Litigator in a Later Patent Infringement Case?" Intellectual Property Supplement of Legal Times, April 1996.
• "Hilton-Davis: The Long-Awaited Decision on the Doctrine of Equivalents," Legal Times, Aug. 1995.