Philippe Bennett

• Trading Technologies International Inc. v. SunGard Financial Systems France FAS, GL Trade Americas Inc., SunGard Data Systems Inc. and SunGard Investment Ventures LLC, No. 05-cv-04120, (N.D. Ill.).
• Trading Technologies International Inc. v. FuturePath Trading LLC, No. 10-cv-00720 (N.D. Ill.).
• Medicis, et al. v. Actavis, No. 11-cv-00409 (D. Del.).
• Tyco Healthcare Group LP, et al. v. E-Z-EM Inc., No. 07-cv-00262 (E.D. Tex.).
• Biovail Laboratories Inc. v. Abrika Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al., No. 04-cv-61704 (S.D. Fla.).
• Lava Trading Inc. v. Sonic Trading Management (S.D.N.Y.).

Philippe Bennett is a retired partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group in Alston & Bird’s New York office. During his career, he was named among the top intellectual property litigators in New York.

Philippe focused his practice on patent litigation, patent licensing, patent strategy, and evaluation and IP due diligence. He has extensive experience litigating before various federal and state courts and the International Trade Commission with versatility in many technologies, including pharmaceutical chemistry, drug delivery systems, medical devices, and financial trading software. Philippe’s work as a leading patent litigator was highly praised in Intellectual Asset Management’s IAM Patent 1000 in 2014, 2015, and 2016 as a “measured but tenacious advocate who knows when best to push hard” and as a “smart negotiator and lucid presenter.” Philippe was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the Litigation–Intellectual Property and Litigation–Patent categories..

Philippe has lectured and published on recent developments in patent law and patent litigation. He has taught intellectual property at Stevens Institute of Technology and has lectured on patent law at Harvard University, Fordham University, The Cooper Union, the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo, BioTechnica in Germany, and the 2013 China IP Summit.

Languages

• French

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Temple University (LL.M., 2008)
• Fordham University (M.B.A., 2003)
• Hofstra University (J.D., 1981)
• Harvard University (A.B., 1976)

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