Timothy C. Bickham

Partner

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Timothy C. Bickham is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property group. Mr. Bickham's practice focuses on litigating and licensing intellectual property, and his specialty is enforcing pharmaceutical companies' patents against generic drug manufacturers (Hatch-Waxman litigation). Mr. Bickham has litigated patent cases in district courts throughout the United States and has coordinated several international patent enforcement efforts.

Mr. Bickham is a frequent lecturer on international patent matters to professional and academic groups around the world. He is also a lecturer at the Intellectual Property Training Institute sponsored by the George Washington University and the Asia Pacific Legal Institute. Mr. Bickham has also lectured on patent procurement and licensing for the National Technology Transfer Center. He served as the Director of External Affairs and Associate Fellow of the Asia Pacific Legal Institute. He was also an advisor to the George Washington University's Dean Dinwoody Center for Intellectual Property Studies, where he organized many of the Center's programs.

Mr. Bickham has a special interest in Brazil and has been an invited lecturer at events sponsored by several Brazilian organizations, including: ABPI- Associação Brasileira da Propriedade Intelectual; SBDI – Sociedade Brasileira de Direito International; EMARF Seminario Propriedade Industrial; and Agif - The Pharmaceutical Management and Innovation Agency (based at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo).

Mr. Bickham's articles have been published in the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Quarterly Journal and the Intellectual Property Litigator.

Professional Affiliations

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association
• US Patent and Trademark Office