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Lauren Baker

is an Associate with Womble Bond Dickinson. Lauren helps clients enforce their intellectual property rights in federal courts and before administrative agencies. Her practice is focused on patent, trademark and copyright litigation across multiple sectors including manufacturing, automotive and technology, among others.

Lauren also has significant experience in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Her work has included representing a leading manufacturer in two district court patent litigation suits and ten inter partes review proceedings against a major competitor.

Recent Articles by Lauren Baker

Practical Considerations for Patent Assignments After the Supreme Court’s Decision in Minerva Surgical v. Hologic

On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. in which it clarified the proper limits of the centuries-old doctrine of assignor estoppel, which operates to prevent an inventor who assigns a patent to another for value from later claiming that the patent assigned is invalid during litigation, holding that the doctrine only applies when “the assignor’s claim of invalidity contradicts explicit or implicit representations he made in assigning the patent.” The decision underscores the need to keep in mind a number of factors when preparing and executing patent assignments.