Brian V. Slater, chair of Kramer Levin’s life sciences practice, is a first-chair trial lawyer with more than 25 years of patent litigation experience. He leads trial teams in high-stakes pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent litigation before the district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He has defended multibillion-dollar drug products in Hatch-Waxman litigation, and advises clients on navigating the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. Leveraging his courtroom-tested litigation experience and deep industry knowledge, Slater also counsels emerging and established life sciences companies on protecting, licensing and monetising their IP assets.