Louis L. Lobel

Louis Lobel is partner in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation group who focuses his practice on representing life sciences, technology and financial services companies in intellectual property litigation and complex commercial disputes. Louis is a practiced trial attorney, having tried numerous cases to juries, judges, and arbitrators across the country.

Louis has broad experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret misappropriation and antitrust matters. He also represents companies in complex, commercial arbitrations, involving licensing, collaboration, and supply agreement disputes. Louis represents a wide variety of life sciences and technology companies – ranging from innovators of new classes of drugs, to generic pharmaceutical companies seeking to bring affordable medications to the public, to emerging technology companies. He manages complex, high stake matters including multiple representations involving products with greater than $1 billion annual US sales. Additionally, Louis provides pre-litigation counseling, advice and litigation risk analysis.

Louis’s representative cases include:

• Trial counsel for a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer in confidential arbitration involving antitrust and breach of contract claims over patent-licensing disputes upon generic entry in AAA arbitration proceedings resulting in dismissal of antitrust and breach of contract claims
• Trial counsel for a biotechnology company that developed and successfully brought-to-market a new class of drugs for the treatment of rare diseases in confidential commercial arbitration involving multiple license and collaboration agreements in AAA arbitration proceedings
• Trial counsel for LED manufacturer resulting in a jury verdict invalidating all asserted patent claims and finding non-infringement of all asserted claims
• Trial counsel for brand pharmaceutical manufacturer in litigation involving patent claims and injunction proceedings
• Counsel for biosimilar manufacturer in BPCIA litigation involving patent claims and injunction proceedings
• Counsel for pharmaceutical company in defense of class action case raising antitrust, Lanham Act and RICO claims
• Trial counsel for a biotechnology company accused of trade secret misappropriation in federal court
• Trial counsel for an mREIT accused of trade secret misappropriation in federal court
• Trial counsel for prominent insurance company asserting trademark infringement claims in federal court
• Counsel for cannabis company accused of trademark infringement resulting in claims dismissed on Summary Judgment
• Counsel for generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in litigation involving patent claims, injunction proceedings, and antitrust counterclaims in federal court
• Counsel for generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in Hatch Waxman litigation
• Counsel for brand pharmaceutical manufacturer in Hatch Waxman litigation
• Trial counsel for prominent Hotel brand resulting in dismissal of all claims in JAMS arbitration proceedings
• Trial counsel defending president of a pharmaceutical company against criminal anti-kickback allegations resulting in jury acquittal in federal court
• Counsel for pharmaceutical manufacturer and certain of its officers and directors defending against securities fraud claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 arising out of alleged misstatements and omissions concerning reimbursement and clinical test metrics, resulting in a dismissal with prejudice

Louis has prior experience as a Special Assistant District Attorney for the Middlesex County (MA) District Attorney's Office where he tried numerous criminal cases and successfully litigated several jury trials.

Louis also devotes a significant amount of time to representing pro bono clients in a variety of matters. Louis worked with GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and Prisoner Legal Services (PLS) in representing a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison, achieving a first-of-its-kind ruling where a court interpreted the ADA’s exclusion of transgender people as unconstitutional and ultimately resulting in the client’s transfer to a women’s facility, the first transfer of its kind in the United States. Louis represented multiple federal prison inmates petitioning for clemency, and state prison inmates seeking parole. Louis also has a number of immigration clients, including asylum applicants, juveniles in immigration proceedings, and a transgender immigrant sexually assaulted upon entering the United States.

Louis currently serves as local council leader of Goodwin Pride for the Boston office.

Louis serves on the Board of Trustees of Discovering Justice.

Louis is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association.

While attending law school, Louis was an Associate Notes Editor of the Texas Law Review and President of OUTLaw.

• Co-author, “Sanctuary Cities: Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality,” Boston Bar Association, August 2017