Practice Expertise

  • Litigation
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Complex Commercial Actions
  • Anti-Counterfeiting

Areas of Practice

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Anti-Counterfeiting
  • Complex Commercial Actions
  • Litigation

Profile

Timothy Waters is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation department and a member of the firm’s Anti-Counterfeiting Practice and Brand Protection team. Mr. Waters represents manufacturers and brand owners in complex litigations against the producers and distributors of counterfeits and illegally diverted products. Mr. Waters’ practice focuses on counterfeit products that have the potential to cause serious injury or death. He has investigated, litigated against and successfully shut down multinational counterfeiting networks on behalf of clients including major pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and tech firms.

Exercising trademark owners’ rights under federal law, Mr. Waters has successfully obtained and executed dozens of ex parte civil seizure orders at counterfeiters’ offices and warehouses, seizing their electronic and paper records, and removing from their shelves hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit medical and consumer products. Mr. Waters has obtained eight-figure judgments against those counterfeit manufacturers and distributors, and obtained permanent injunctive relief prohibiting the companies and their principals from ever again buying or selling his clients’ products. Mr. Waters also successfully litigates against gray-market distributors and others who illegally divert his clients’ products, obtaining similar monetary and injunctive relief.

In addition to anti-counterfeiting and brand-protection litigations, Mr. Waters represents large corporations in trademark and copyright actions, consumer fraud lawsuits, and breach-of-contract and indemnity disputes. 

Outside of litigation, Mr. Waters counsels manufacturers and markholders on brand-protection strategies, including combatting and deterring counterfeiting, unlawful diversion, and fraudulent billing and reimbursement practices. 

Bar Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
  • New York

Education

  • Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2008)
    • Executive Editor, Harvard Law Review
  • University of California, Berkeley (B.A., with highest distinction, 2003)

Areas of Practice

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Anti-Counterfeiting
  • Complex Commercial Actions
  • Litigation

Professional Career


Professional Activities and Experience

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Presenter, "Beyond Borders, Combating Counterfeiting in a Globalized World," K2 Integrity (September 26, 2023); Presenter, "Learn how to hunt down and stop pharmaceutical counterfeiters," Virtue Insight Annual Pharma Anti-Counterfeiting & Serialisation (September 6, 2023)




Blogs

Antitrust Update

Antitrust Update Blog is a source of insights, information and analysis on criminal and civil antitrust and competition-related issues. Patterson Belknap’s antitrust lawyers represent clients in antitrust litigation and counseling matters, including those related to pricing, marketing, distribution, franchising, and joint ventures and other strategic alliances. We have significant experience with government civil and criminal/cartel investigations, providing the unique perspectives of former...

Data Security Law Blog

DataSecurityLaw.com is the firm’s resource for the latest news, analysis, and thought leadership in the critical area of privacy and cybersecurity law. Patterson Belknap’s Privacy and Data Security practice provides public and private enterprises, their leadership teams and boards with comprehensive services in this critical area. Our team of experienced litigators, corporate advisors and former federal and state prosecutors advises on a broad range of privacy and data protection matters...

Misbranded

Misbranded is Patterson Belknap’s blog covering false advertising litigation—both consumer class actions and competitor suits—with a particular focus on FDA-regulated products (foods/beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and dietary supplements).

New York Commercial Division Decisions

The blog is a source for insights and developments related to practice in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court. This blog reviews key developments in the Commercial Division, including important decisions handed down by the Commercial Division and appellate court decisions reviewing Commercial Division decisions. The blog also covers changes and proposed changes to Commercial Division rules and practice, including revisions to the rules since January 2015. The...

Second Circuit Criminal Law Blog

The Second Circuit Criminal Law Blog is your place to follow the criminal law decisions rendered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. With a rich 225-year history of legendary judges like Learned Hand and Henry Friendly, the Second Circuit has long been known for writing important and thoughtful opinions on many subjects, including the criminal law. We review every published criminal law opinion handed down by the Second Circuit in order to provide you with a summary of the...

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