Marina Pullerits
Marina Pullerits works with clients of Choate’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Complex Trial and Appellate groups. Marina has experience representing companies and individuals in high-value patent, trade secret, and commercial disputes. She has also served as an advisor to biotech companies seeking to evaluate patent validity and infringement issues and associated litigation risks.
Marina recently served as a Special Assistant District Attorney with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, where she conducted 10 criminal trials and gained substantial motion practice experience. Prior to joining Choate, Marina clerked for The Honorable Chief Justice Ralph Gants of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Representative Engagements
- Adimab, LLC v. LinkedUp Bioscience, Inc. and Tao Wang, No., Mass. Super. Ct: Counsel to Adimab in trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract dispute brought against LinkedUp related to highly engineered yeast strains, and technologies for cultivating and utilizing those strains to express and screen antibodies that bind to target antigens.
- Represent leading biotechnology and life sciences company in PTAB and D. Del. proceedings, defending patents directed to novel methods of treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
- Advise global biotechnology company regarding patent validity and infringement issues and associated litigation risks.
- Represent intelligent security company and multiple authorized resellers in patent infringement cases pending nationwide.
- Represent technology and life sciences companies in trade secret misappropriation litigation in state and federal court.
- Advise reinsurers concerning COVID-19 coverage disputes.
- Investigate whistleblower complaint by conducting internal audit for manufacturing company.
- Represent technology company in contractual dispute relating to most favored nation provision.
- Advise lenders regarding potential litigation risks arising out of borrower defaults.
- In re: Cellect, LLC, Fed. Cir.: Counsel for the American Intellectual Property Law Association in filing amicus brief in support of a petition for rehearing en banc.
- United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al.; Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al.; Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al., U.S. Supreme Court: Counsel for the American Intellectual Property Law Association in filing amicus brief in support of reversal on the merits.
- Assist pro bono clients with applications for asylum, applications to seal criminal records, and probate disputes, including by appearing on their behalf in court.
Publications and Presentations
- “Professionalism in Developing, Managing, and Maintaining Relationships,” active moderator, Boston Bar Association Practicing with Professionalism Course, May 2024
- “IP in Life Sciences: Developments and Notable Topics from 2023,” speaker, Boston Bar Association IP 2023 Year in Review Conference, March 2024
- “Truth and Justice with Capital Letters,” co-author, Boston Bar Association, December 2020
Education & Credentials
- Harvard Law School
- JD, 2018, magna cum laude
- Executive Submissions Editor, Business Law Review
- Dartmouth College
- BA, 2015, class salutatorian, summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Clerkships
- Honorable Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court