Geoff Mason joins Moarbes as head of the Intellectual Property Practice

18 June, 2013
 
Washington, D.C., USA

Geoffrey Mason, Esq. joins Moarbes LLP as head of the Intellectual Property Practice. Mr. Mason has over a dozen years’ experience managing and trying biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent cases, and managing large teams and vendors programming and developing pharmaceutical client-facing litigation databases. 
 

Mr. Mason's experience includes representing brand and generic companies in Hatch-Waxman litigations relating to many blockbuster drugs, including Prozac®, Lovenox®, Augmentin®, Concerta®, Strattera® and Cymbalta®. Mr. Mason has significant trial experience and has first-chaired numerous discovery hearings. Mr. Mason's trial experience includes acting as lead trial counsel in a pro bono criminal matter, where he prevailed by directed verdict at the close of the government's case. 

In connection with the blockbuster pharmaceutical cases Mr. Mason has litigated, Mr. Mason managed large teams and vendors programming and developing pharmaceutical client-facing litigation databases, including teams as large as several dozen attorneys resulting in the ultimate production of millions of pages of documents. Mr. Mason has extensive personal programming experience, including both developing and implementing word processing software to migrate legacy Navy word processing databases from mainframes to PCs, and developing one of the first 3D fractal geometry landscape modeling programs ever made for a PC, if not the very first. 

Education:

Georgetown University Law Center J.D., cum laude, 1997 
Harvard College B.A., magna cum laude, Social Studies and Biochemical Sciences, 1994 

Bars:

District of Columbia
New York
Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office