Joze Welsh
Partner
- NEW YORK Phone: 212-808-2980 Fax: 212-351-3401
Ms. Welsh’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related litigation, including patent and antitrust litigation. Her experience includes preparing pleadings and contentions, drafting briefs, taking depositions, and preparing fact and expert trial witnesses in cases involving smartphone software, computer networking technology, medical and robotic devices, and consumer products. Ms. Welsh has also served as pro bono counsel in asylum proceedings at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
During law school, Ms. Welsh served as an Articles Editor of the Cardozo Law Review, a law journal dedicated to advancing empirical, interdisciplinary, and philosophical scholarship, as well as exploring cutting-edge national issues. Ms. Welsh also participated in Cardozo’s Tech Startup Clinic, where she assisted tech startup clients with entity formation, funding questions, intellectual property issues, commercialization strategies, and operational and employment matters. Ms. Welsh additionally served as Research Assistant to Professor Michael Burstein, focusing on the intersection of intellectual property law and economics.
During law school, Ms. Welsh served as an Articles Editor of the Cardozo Law Review, a law journal dedicated to advancing empirical, interdisciplinary, and philosophical scholarship, as well as exploring cutting-edge national issues. Ms. Welsh also participated in Cardozo’s Tech Startup Clinic, where she assisted tech startup clients with entity formation, funding questions, intellectual property issues, commercialization strategies, and operational and employment matters. Ms. Welsh additionally served as Research Assistant to Professor Michael Burstein, focusing on the intersection of intellectual property law and economics.
Prior Experience
- Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, New York, New York, 2016
- Research Assistant, Michael J. Burstein, New York, New York, 2015-2016
- Research Assistant, Marci A. Hamilton, New York, New York, 2015
- Intern, Cardozo Tech Startup Clinic, New York, New York, 2015
Clerk & Government Experience
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Bruce E. Scheckowitz, New York City Civil Court, New York, 2015-2017
- IBM Owes $19.5M In EDTX Trial Over 'Blockchain' Software -Law360, September 27, 2024
- “Arista Agrees To Pay Cisco $400M On Eve Of Antitrust Trial” – Law360, August 6, 2018 – Ms. Welsh was part of the Desmarais LLP team that secured a $400 million settlement in favor of defendant Cisco on the eve of an antitrust trial set to begin in the Northern District of California
- Desmarais LLP Defeats Labcorp’s Attempt to Undermine Ravgen’s Trial Victory
- Desmarais LLP Wins $57M Jury Verdict for Ravgen in Prenatal Genetic Testing Patent Trial
- Desmarais LLP Secures $100M Enhanced Damages Ruling for Ravgen
- Desmarais LLP Defeats Final PTAB Challenge to Ravgen’s Genetic-Testing Patents
- Desmarais LLP Secures Patent Litigation Settlement for Ravgen
- Desmarais LLP Secures $272.5M Jury Verdict in Prenatal Genetic Testing Patent Trial
- Desmarais LLP Represents ViiV Healthcare and Shionogi in Patent Settlement, Securing $1.25B Plus Royalties
- Arista Networks Inc. v. Cisco Systems Inc.
EDUCATION
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2017; cum laude; Dean’s Merit Scholarship; Cardozo Law Review, Articles EditorUniversity of Pittsburgh, B.S., Neuroscience, Minor in Chemistry, 2014, cum laude; Order of Omega; Golden Key Honors Society; National Society of Collegiate Scholars