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Christine Ranney

Christine
Ranney

Associate Attorney

CONTACT INFO

cranney@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 303.298.5720

FAX:+1 303.313.2841

Denver

1801 California Street, Suite 4200, Denver, CO 80202-2642 USA

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PRACTICE

Intellectual Property Life Sciences

BIOGRAPHY

Christine Ranney is an associate in the Denver office and a member of the firm’s Litigation department. She focuses on patent and appellate litigation and is knowledgeable across a range of arts and practices, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Ms. Ranney has experience in all phases of litigation from pre-suit diligence to appeal, including managing discovery, taking and defending depositions, working with experts, drafting dispositive motions, arguing discovery motions, Markman hearings, and pre- and post-trial motions, conducting direct and cross-examination of expert witnesses at trial, and drafting appellate briefs. She has participated in two ANDA bench trials, an ITC trial, and a jury trial, and secured favorable results for her clients in each, including most recently in two multi-billion dollar biotech litigations. She also has substantial experience handling proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including inter partes review and post-grant review petitions, often in parallel with ongoing high-stakes litigation.

Representative matters:

  • Secured one of the largest defense victories in patent litigation history for clients EMD Serono, Inc. and Pfizer Inc. in a suit brought by Biogen MA Inc. seeking more than $5.4 billion in damages for infringement of a patent relating to the use of recombinant DNA technology in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
  • Obtained favorable bench ruling and Federal Circuit affirmance for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in litigation enforcing patent covering Novartis’s $3 billion Multiple Sclerosis drug GILENYA®
  • Obtained critical victory for Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Depomed, Inc.) in Hatch-Waxman litigation concerning Assertio’s most important asset, the opioid drug NUCYNTA®
  • Represented Uber in multiple patent infringement litigations in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, obtaining transfer to California in one and favorable resolutions in others
  • Secured favorable final determination for client Fitbit on patent and trade secret allegations brought before the International Trade Commission.

Ms. Ranney recently served as a member of the firm’s Associates Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ranney served as a law clerk to the Honorable Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before her clerkship, she was an analyst in a leadership development program at Merck & Co.  Ms. Ranney received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2013. Ms. Ranney earned her B.S.E in Chemical Engineering in 2008 from Princeton University.

Ms. Ranney is admitted to practice law in the States of California and Colorado and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

EDUCATION

New York University - 2013 Juris Doctor

Princeton University - 2008 BS in Engineering

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

Colorado Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - October 13, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Recognized in 2021 Managing IP Handbook
Client Alert - August 2, 2021 | Federal Circuit Update (July 2021)
Client Alert - April 5, 2021 | Federal Circuit Update (March 2021)
Client Alert - November 4, 2019 | Federal Circuit Update (November 2019)
Client Alert - August 13, 2019 | Federal Circuit Update (August 2019)
Client Alert - May 13, 2019 | Federal Circuit Update (May 2019)
Client Alert - January 31, 2019 | Federal Circuit Update (January 2019)
Client Alert - December 3, 2018 | Federal Circuit Update (December 2018)
Client Alert - July 31, 2018 | Federal Circuit Update (July 2018)
Client Alert - May 30, 2018 | Federal Circuit Update (May 2018)
Client Alert - November 30, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (November 2017)
Client Alert - September 26, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (September 2017)
Client Alert - July 31, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (July 2017)
Client Alert - May 24, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (May 2017)
Client Alert - March 28, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (March 2017)
Client Alert - January 26, 2017 | Federal Circuit Update (January 2017)
Client Alert - November 30, 2016 | Federal Circuit Update (November 2016)
Client Alert - September 29, 2016 | Federal Circuit Update (September 2016)
Client Alert - July 27, 2016 | Federal Circuit Update (July 2016)
Client Alert - May 26, 2016 | Federal Circuit Update (May 2016)
Client Alert - March 24, 2016 | Federal Circuit Update (March 2016)
Client Alert - July 27, 2015 | Amgen v. Sandoz: Like a song from the ’80s, the Federal Circuit says “You can dance if you want to . . .”
Client Alert - July 15, 2015 | 2015 Mid-Year E-Discovery Update
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