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...
Practice Expertise
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Complex Commercial Actions
- Biotechnology
Areas of Practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Biotechnology
- Complex Commercial Actions
- Consumer Products
- Employment Law
- Employment Litigation, Workplace ...
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Life Sciences / Health Care
- Litigation
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Profile
Aron Fischer practices general civil litigation, with significant experience in intellectual property litigation, complex commercial disputes, employment matters, and defamation cases. Mr. Fischer has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in successful patent trials and appeals involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology products. He is a member of the firm’s anti-counterfeiting team and has litigated a number of additional trademark and unfair competition cases on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, with a particular focus on the use of consumer survey evidence. Mr. Fischer regularly defends clients in employment and defamation cases, often obtaining dismissal before trial. Mr. Fischer also maintains an active pro bono practice on behalf of low-income clients.
Mr. Fischer served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Robert Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General's Honors Program under Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo.
Bar Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- New York
Education
- Yale Law School (J.D., 2005)
- Comments Editor, Yale Law Journal
- Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 2000)
- Phi Beta Kappa
Areas of Practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Biotechnology
- Complex Commercial Actions
- Consumer Products
- Employment Law
- Employment Litigation, Workplace Investigations, and Compliance
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Life Sciences / Health Care
- Litigation
- Patent Litigation
Professional Career
Articles
For the First Time Since TC Heartland, the Federal Circuit Addresses Venue in an ANDA Case – the Holding May Also Impact BPCIA Litigation
By Aron Fischer |November 2020
- Co-Author, "A New Strain Of Inequitable Conduct Litigation," Law360 (October 2017)
- Co-Author, "If High Court Reverses Teva, Litigation Costs May Increase," Law360 (October 2014)
- Author, Comment: Is the Right to Organize Unconstitutional?, 113 Yale L.J. 1999 (2004)
- Co-Author, Neighborhoods and Health Research and its Relevance to Social Policy, in NEIGHBORHOODS AND HEALTH (Lisa Berkman & Ichiro Kawachi, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003)
Blogs
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...
NY Patent Decisions Blog
NYPatentDecisionsBlog.com is a source for the latest patent decisions from the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. The blog is authored by Patterson Belknap’s Patent Litigation practice group, whose members are highly experienced trial attorneys with extensive technical knowledge. Many have advanced scientific degrees and industry experience in fields such as communications, electrical and electro-optical technology, semiconductor technology, metallurgical...
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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