Roger Chin
Dr. Roger Chin is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department. For more than two decades he has focused on litigating life science patent disputes and advising on intellectual property strategy in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Roger has successfully represented clients in patent cases through preliminary injunction motions, summary judgment, trial, and appeal. He has litigated technology in areas such as chemistry, pharmaceutics, medicine, molecular biology, and genomics. Roger received his JD from Yale Law School, his MD from Yale Medical School, and his AB summa cum laude in Chemistry from Cornell University. He is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of California, the US Courts of Appeal for the Federal and Ninth Circuits, and various US District Courts. Roger was a member of the Northern District of California Electronic Case Filing (ECF) Taskforce, which implemented one of the first ECF systems in the federal court system in April 2001. · Latham & Watkins
About
Dr. Roger Chin is a partner at Latham & Watkins focusing on litigating life science patent disputes and advising on intellectual property strategy in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
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Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- MD, Yale Medical School
- AB summa cum laude in Chemistry, Cornell University
Admissions
- Supreme Court of California
- US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Various US District Courts