Eric Alan Stone

A partner in the Litigation Department, Eric Alan Stone focuses on a broad range of commercial disputes and on patent litigation, at trial and on appeal.

Experience

Eric has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the country, and arbitrations here and overseas. He has significant experience in employment and pension litigation, intellectual property matters, corporate-control litigation, product liability, insurance coverage and professional malpractice. Significant representations include:

• The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in a trial to set the royalty rate for public performances of musical compositions played by Pandora, the leading Internet music streaming service;
• The Alaska Retirement Management Board, trustee of Alaska's public pension plans, in a suit against the state's former actuary;
• IBM in employment litigation;
• AIG in litigation with its former chairman;
• Several private equity funds in litigation regarding the purchase or sale of portfolio companies, and in litigation for those portfolio companies; and
• A law firm in connection with allegations arising out of the settlement of pharmaceutical litigation.

Eric is also a member of our patent litigation group. Representative matters include:

• Genentech in litigation over a foundational patent teaching methods of creating antibodies using recombinant DNA techniques, and in litigation over chromatographic techniques to purify antibodies;
• Amgen in litigation regarding the first FDA-approved biosimilar;
• Biogen Idec in litigation regarding recombinant beta interferon;
• Vanda Pharmaceuticals in litigation regarding proposed generic versions of an antipsychotic drug; and
• Craig Thompson, M.D., the President of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in litigation related to Dr. Thompson's prior work in cancer metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eric is an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law where he co-teaches patent litigation. Eric is also co-author of a regular column for the New York Law Journal on intellectual property litigation.

Eric maintains an active pro bono practice, and is a Trustee of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. His pro bono representations include:

• A class of New York state's blind and severely visually impaired prison inmates in challenging the conditions of their confinement;
• The New York City Board of Correction in connection with its Minimum Standards that govern the City's jails;
• Five binational, same-sex couples in challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act;
• Persons living with HIV in individual actions for wrongful disclosure of their confidential medical information; and
• Helping New Jersey's poorest public-school children gain access to government data to ensure they receive the education to which they are entitled.

Eric served as a notes and comments editor of the New York University Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Before law school, Eric participated in the New York City Urban Fellows program, working at the New York City Department of Correction.

Practices

• Employment
• Insurance
• IP Litigation: Patent & Other Scientific
• International Arbitration
• Litigation
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability
  

Education

• J.D., New York University School of Law, 1997
  magna cum laude
• B.A., Williams College, 1993
  magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Clerkships

• Hon. Charles P. Sifton, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

Bar Admissions

• New York
• New Jersey

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