Aoife Elizabeth Butler

Strategic guidance for management and cross-functional teams to identify, build and enforce valuable IP portfolios.

Primary focus is complex patent litigation, due diligence investigations, and counseling innovative entities to evaluate and develop IP strategies for business success. Extensive experience prosecuting and defending disputes involving a wide range of issues and technical disciplines, ranging from financial trading software technologies to pharmaceuticals, and working with innovative entities to develop proactive IP business strategies, including patent landscaping and analytics, preparing reports to seek VC funding, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, and assessment of competitors’ IP portfolios.

Honors include:

• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

• Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women – Women Leaders in Law 2013, 2014

• Top 40 Under 40 Irish/Irish Americans for 2010

• Irish Legal 100 2010