Litigators of the Week: A Trade Secret Win at the ITC for Viking Over Promising Potential Liver Drug
Eric Dittmann and Kecia Reynolds of Paul Hastings helped client Viking Therapeutics Inc. secure a seven-year exclusion order from an administrative law judge at the ITC against Ascletis—a rival also developing a potential treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
November 22, 2024 at 08:30 AM
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Our Litigators of the Week are Eric Dittmann and Kecia Reynolds of Paul Hastings. They have been representing client Viking Therapeutics Inc., a company working on a potential treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, in trade secret proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission involving Ascletis, a Chinese biotech company.
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