Taras Gracey is a trial lawyer with more than 20 years of courtroom experience. He has tried both jury and bench trials as well as handled numerous appeals in the Federal and Seventh Circuits. He has represented both patent owners and accused infringers in a broad spectrum of intellectual property disputes, focusing on pharmaceutical/Hatch-Waxman litigation and technology matters involving chipsets and display technologies. He also is versed in and has handled inter partes reviews (IPRs). Taras' litigation experience spans the country, including federal courts in California, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.
On the patent owner side, Taras has won a jury verdict of over $20 million in one technology case and obtained a $35 million settlement on the last day of trial in another. On the Hatch-Waxman side, he has successfully first-chaired numerous cases and was part of the team that invalidated Eli Lilly's patent on Prozac®, which the press called "the Mother of All Patent Challenges."
