Life Sciences Patent Network (LSPN) North America Fall 2025

Oct
21
2025

Date: October 21, 2025

Location: Hyatt Regency, San Francisco

Time: 4:15 – 4:35 pm PT

Speaker: Terri Shieh-Newton 

Topic: Integrating Data Rights and IP: Mitigating Reach-Through Risks

This presentation will examine how life sciences companies leveraging AI can develop comprehensive IP strategies that reduce reach-through risks by integrating patents, trade secrets, and data rights licenses. The discussion will highlight the benefits of bundling these protections effectively, the need to align IP safeguards with the company’s business model, and the implications of negotiating data rights licenses. It will also emphasize the importance of proactively building IP strategies to prepare for potential disputes.

 

Time: 4:35 – 5:30 pm PT

Speaker: Siegmund Gutman, moderator

Topic: Unlocking Value Through Method-of-Manufacture Patents: Strategic Litigation and Patent Claiming Considerations

As life sciences companies increasingly shift manufacturing outside the U.S., patent strategies must evolve to keep pace. This session explores how method-of-manufacture patents—often undervalued compared to composition or method-of-treatment claims—can become powerful tools for excluding infringing imports and securing damages, including through venues like the ITC. The discussion will span both biologics and small molecules, with practical insights for early-stage and mature companies alike. We’ll also touch on the intersection of patent and trade secret protection, and preview how these strategies can support broader enforcement campaigns. We’ll examine how to structure claims that align with enforcement goals, including:

  • Capturing key intermediates and process innovations
  • Leveraging structural limitations to support infringement arguments
  • Enhancing portfolio value through strategic prosecution

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Professionals

  • Terri Shieh-Newton, PhD
  • Siegmund Gutman

    • Related Practices

  • Patent Litigation
  • International Trade Commission Section 337
  • Patent Prosecution & Strategic Counseling
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Patent Portfolio Strategy
  • Trade Secrets

    • Related Industries

  • Life Sciences

    • Speakers

    Terri Shieh-Newton, PhD

    Terri Shieh-Newton, PhD

    Speaker

    Terri Shieh-Newton, PhD, is a Mintz Member who guides clients on portfolio management and landscape analysis. She's a trained immunologist with a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and she works with companies of all sizes in a wide range of life sciences and clean technology industries.
    Siegmund Gutman

    Siegmund Gutman

    Moderator

    Siegmund Y. (“Sige”) Gutman is a nationally recognized patent litigator and counselor who serves as Chair of Mintz’s Life Sciences Litigation Practice and Co-chair of the firm’s Patent Litigation Practice. Drawing on his background and industry experience in molecular and cell biology and biophysical chemistry, Sige litigates cases involving biologic drug patents, life sciences innovations, and the Hatch-Waxman Act. He also develops and executes market exclusivity and freedom to operate strategies and handles inter partes patent office actions.