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Lora Green

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Bar Admissions

  • Maryland
  • District of Columbia

Courts

  • The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • The United States Supreme Court

Admission

  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Dr. Lora Green has over 30 years experience in the life science, pharmaceutical, and biotech fields. From 2001 to 2018, Lora was an administrative patent judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), serving as a lead administrative patent judge of the biotech team from 2011 to 2017.

While at the USPTO, she managed post-grant review proceedings, such as inter partes and post grant reviews, where she was involved in over 380 post-grant review proceedings. She also mentored judges who were new to post grant-review proceedings and reviewed opinions of other authoring judges. In addition, she decided over 4,000 ex parte appeals from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device examining groups. She was part of developing the “Orange Book Project” dedicated to evaluating the intersection of post-grant proceedings and Hatch-Waxman litigation.

After the USPTO, Lora was a partner in the DC office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, where she assisted many start-ups with strategic patent prosecution, and also focused on proceedings before the PTAB, including post grant reviews and interferences, especially in the life sciences. At Wilson Sonsini, Lora also focused on patent counseling, patent strategy, and patent prosecution, especially for early-stage life science companies.

Earlier in her career, Lora was an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where she prosecuted applications in the biotechnology field before the USPTO and international applications submitted under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

After graduating first in her law school class at George Washington University, Lora served as a law clerk to the Honorable William C. Bryson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She started her career in patent law at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where she was a primary examiner.

Dr. Green was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials (2025) by the PTAB Bar Association.

  • Representing Celltrion in BPCIA proceedings relating to EYLEA (aflibercept).
  • Represented Celltrion in successful IPRs related to Actemra (tocilizumab) and EYLEA (aflibercept).
  • Represented defendant Teva Pharmaceuticals in patent litigation involving Endo’s OPANA ER® (extended-release oxymorphone hydrochloride) tablets. The case went to trial before the Honorable Richard G. Andrews in July 2016.
  • Represented plaintiff Cephalon, Inc. in patent litigation against over fifteen defendants involving Cephalon’s TREANDA® (bendamustine HCl) lyophilized product. The case went to trial before the Honorable Gregory Sleet in December of 2015.  After a trial against five defendants, Cephalon prevailed on its claims of infringement against all defendants.
  • Represented defendant Pass & Seymour in patent litigation involving ground-fault circuit interrupter products.  The case later went to trial, with a jury verdict entered in favor of Pass & Seymour.
  • Represented defendant Teva in patent litigation involving teriparatide products.  The case resulted in a favorable settlement.
  • Represented Wyeth in one of the largest and most complex life sciences patent litigations ever in Australia, involving three separate proceedings against eight separate parties (including the Commonwealth of Australia) in relation to extended release venlafaxine products. These three cases, which involved a six week trial, were the first cases in Australia to address claims on undertakings as to damages in pharmaceutical patent litigation by generic pharmaceutical companies, their suppliers and the Commonwealth of Australia.
Education
  • J.D., The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Magna Cum Laude, 1998
    • Graduated with highest honors, class rank 1/467. Member of the Law Review. Awards include: Order of the Coif, Ann Wells Branscomb Award, Willard Waddington Gatchall Award, Kappa Beta Pi Award, John Bell Lerner Award, and Jennie Hassler Walburn Award.
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1990
    • Performed my graduate work with Dr. Jeremy Berg. Examined the metal-binding properties of a retroviral nucleocapsid protein and related peptides through the use of Co-2+-adsorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and limited proteolysis studies.
  • B.S. in Chemistry with an Option in Chemical Engineering, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1985
    • Phi Lambda Epsilon Chemical Honor Society

 

Bar admissions and qualifications

 

BAR
  • Maryland
  • District of Columbia
COURTS
  • The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • The United States Supreme Court
ADMISSIONS
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

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