Deborah J. Mariottini

Deborah Mariottini’s practice focuses on complex technology disputes, including patent litigation, PTAB proceedings, licensing disputes, and international arbitration proceedings. Her experience includes all phases of litigation, including preparing pleadings and contentions, managing discovery, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, drafting briefs, arguing issues at hearings, preparing and conducting trial examinations, and handling dispute resolution in cases involving medical devices, biotechnology, and computer networking technology. She has also represented pro bono clients before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

She was part of the team that represented biotech company Ravgen in two jury trials, against Laboratory Corporation of America and Natera.  At the trials, Ms. Mariottini conducted the examinations of Ravgen’s clinical expert and technical expert on source code.  The team achieved a victory in both cases, resulting in a judgment of over $272M against LabCorp plus a $100M enhancement for its willful infringement and $57M against Natera.

As part of her pro bono practice, Ms. Mariottini successfully obtained death and indemnity compensation benefits for a veterans’ widow after the Board of Veterans’ Appeals had denied the claim twice.  After the first denial, the Court of Appeals of Veterans Claims voluntarily remanded the case, agreeing that the board had erred in its consideration of the claim.  After the Board denied the claim a second time, despite a new letter from the veteran’s doctor to establish that his death was service connected, the Desmarais team appealed again.  This Appeals Court then issued a rare reversal and granted the veteran’s widow benefits.

During law school, Ms. Mariottini was an editor for the Journal of Law and Technology, a law journal that publishes about intellectual property law, privacy law, and other issues at the intersection of law and technology. She completed extensive coursework in intellectual property, including a patent trial advocacy course which simulated a patent trial from complaint to verdict. She also worked with the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project to provide legal advice to entrepreneurs and startups and represented tenants of public and subsidized housing at administrative hearings through the Tenant Advocacy Project. Before law school, she taught high school mathematics through Blue Engine, an AmeriCorps program.