Anne Elise Herold Li

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Anne Elise Herold Li is a partner in Crowell & Moring LLP's Life Sciences Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Trade Secrets groups in New York, and is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group Steering Committee.

Anne represents clients in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, medical device, and mobile device industries, including a wide range of clients from large corporations to start-ups. She litigates in both federal and state court, Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings, and at the International Trade Commission (ITC) as lead counsel.

She deeply understands life sciences companies, their technologies, and their markets. Anne is adept at leveraging her technical background to assist companies on cutting edge issues, such as COVID-19, cell therapy, gene editing, biomanufacturing, among many others. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes technology litigation, specializing in patent, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation. She is a thought leader in life science law and strategic counselor for her clients on myriad issues related to their technology, including IP strategy through counseling, patent procurement, freedom-to-operate, due diligence, and monetization of intellectual property.