Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce Jayashree Mitra, Ph.D., has joined the firm in New York as a partner in the Intellectual Property Department. Mitra comes to the firm from Zuber Lawler & Del Duca in New York.

“Jay has deep technical knowledge and experience in the life sciences sector and will be an invaluable asset to our clients navigating patent disputes and litigation,” said Janet M. MacLeod, Ph.D., Fox’s New York office managing partner. “We are thrilled to welcome her to the firm.”

Mitra represents clients across of a range of industries — including pharmaceuticals, biotech, legal cannabis, psychedelics and emerging technology — before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and International Trade Commission and in a full range of patent litigation, including Hatch-Waxman actions, Inter Partes Review and Post Grant Review proceedings and trade secrets disputes. She also has experience handling antitrust matters, as well as intellectual property due diligence and technology agreements for mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions.

A former neuropharmaceutical researcher at Yale University, Mitra’s technical knowledge extends to small molecules, protein therapeutics, protein conjugates, vaccines, injectables, biologics and biosimilars, as well as blockchain and data privacy. She is also recognized as a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. Private Sector (CIPP-US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

She earned her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Yale University, M.S. in Physiology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and B.S. in Physiology from Rammohan College, University of Calcutta.