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Education
Law School/Year: Yale, 1977
College/Year: San Diego State University, 1974
Bar Admissions
California; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuit; Numerous federal courts
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property
Major Cases
February 2012
Baxter Healthcare v. Fresenius Medical- Lead counsel for Fresenius, defending against Baxter’s claim that Fresenius’s peritoneal dialysis cycler infringed a patent held by noted inventor Dean Kamen and owned by Baxter and Kamen’s company, DEKA, and another Baxter patent.
November 2012 - trial/January 2013 - decision
Allergan and Duke University v. Apotex Inc., Sandoz Inc. and Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co. Inc. Co-lead counsel in bench trial for Allergan to halt the defendants from introducing generic forms of Latisse, a popular treatment for stimulating eyelash growth. Brooks scored a complete victory.
November 2012
Argued appeal in Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., et al 2:09-cv-97– District Court opinion -- in which Brooks/Fish prevailed -- was upheld. She successfully represented Allergan regarding its drug Combigan. The successful verdict saved Allergan potentially $3 billion.
December 2012
Multimedia Patent Trust v. Apple - Brooks and her team scored a complete victory with a jury determining no infringement of three video compression patents involving Apple's iPod, iPad, iPhone and MacBook. Multimedia Patent Trust’s attorney asked for $172.3 million in royalty damages.
January 2013
Allergan Inc. v. Barr Laboratories Inc. - The federal court affirmed the decision of this 2011 Hatch-Waxman bench trial, in which Brooks represented Allergan regarding the glaucoma drug LUMIGAN worth $400 million in annual sales. The trial court found for Allergan basing the opinion predominantly on the fact that the defendants’ expert’s credibility had been “eviscerated” by Brooks on cross-examination.
May 2013 – Settlement
Roche v. Teva (Cite TBD) involving the drug Xeloda, an oral chemotherapy tablet used for breast and other cancers with 2012 sales of $660 million in the United States and more than $1.6 billion worldwide. While the terms are confidential, the settlement was exceedingly favorable for Brooks’ client, Roche.
Professional Background
Brooks is a principal in Fish & Richardson's Southern California office. She has a nationwide trial practice, specializing in complex intellectual property litigation. Brooks assisted in drafting the local patent rules for the Southern District of California.
Brooks’ litigation experience includes numerous cases involving intellectual property, product liability and qui tam litigation. She was a trial attorney with the Federal Defenders of San Diego Inc. from 1977 to 1980 and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1987.
In 2009, she was named to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's national list of "Leading Law Firm Rainmakers." MCCA chose just 14 attorneys for this honor, and Brooks is one of four women on the list.
In November 2011, IP360 named Brooks as one of the 10 intellectual property “MVP’s” nationwide. Brooks was the only woman to achieve this recognition.
Professional Affiliations
Founding member, Wallace Inn of Court (2005-present); Board Member and pro bono counsel, Western Center on Law & Poverty (2005-present).
Personal Background
Brooks grew up in Sunnymead, Calif., a small farming community, where she lived with her single mother and sister. To make ends meet, Brooks’ family took in laundry and ran a home-based daycare center. She entered Yale Law School at age 20.
She is the mother of two grown children and lives in La Jolla.
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