<p>  <br>  Christopher M. Mikson, M.D. focuses on litigation and intellectual property matters involving health care and the life sciences. With a wide range of legal experience, scientific education, and clinical training, he serves clients primarily in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. 
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Dr. Mikson has litigated patent infringement and complex commercial cases to final verdict, judgment, or appeal in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has significant experience in declaratory judgment actions, preliminary injunction proceedings, and Markman hearings. He has represented major medical device companies as both plaintiff and defendant in patent infringement and trade secret cases, and a major pharmaceutical company in defense of patent infringement litigation. He has also prosecuted patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the chemical and mechanical arts, and has represented a major medical electronics company in the European Patent Office Enlarged Board of Appeal.
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Dr. Mikson graduated in 1987 from Rutgers School of Law – Camden, where he was an editor of the Rutgers Law Journal. He practiced commercial litigation for nearly a decade before enrolling in the University of Pennsylvania Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program. While at Penn, he worked as in-house counsel at a major corporation and gained admission to Jefferson Medical College. While in medical school, he served on the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, participated in research at the Rothman Institute on cartilage replacement technology, and practiced patent litigation and prosecution at Akin Gump.
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Dr. Mikson is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and a member of the American Medical Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association and New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association