SAN DIEGO, June 19, 2024—Duane Morris partner Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D. was named to the Daily Journal’s 2024 Top Women Lawyers list. The annual list recognizes California women lawyers doing pathbreaking work on the highest stakes cases and deals.
Norton serves as a team lead for the Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Industry Group and is chair of the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Division of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. In more than two decades of life science patent counseling and litigation, she has devised strategies for clients to successfully counter patent claims and demands totaling over $2 billion, has performed IP diligence for transactions, product clearances and at-the-market offerings collectively worth over $4.0 billion, and has formulated worldwide patent strategies for clients entering public markets with valuations of over $6 billion. Norton also audits technology portfolios and identifies patent coverage issues for her clients’ transactions, venture financings and patent enforcement opportunities. She has handled patent matters in a variety of life science fields, including precision medicine and diagnostics, biologic drugs, pharmaceuticals, immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine and stem cell technologies, transgenic plants and cells, molecular biology, nanotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, probe amplification assays, nutraceuticals, microbiology and devices for physical therapy. Norton has also advised clients on all facets of litigation involving technologies including diagnostics, biopharmaceuticals, transgenic organisms, small molecules and nanotechnology.
Norton is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. She holds a doctorate in biochemistry and biophysics and a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis.
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