Anne Y. Lee

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Anne Y. Lee — Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, D.C.)

Specialty / focus. Publicly available bios describe Anne Y. Lee as an antitrust and competition litigator rather than a patent specialist: she is a partner at Covington & Burling and co-chair of the firm's global Antitrust and Competition Law Practice Group, handling complex antitrust litigation, merger and government-investigation work before the DOJ and FTC, and trial and appellate litigation. Her single tracked appearance — Juul Labs Inc. v. Altria et al., on the defense side — sits in the e-vapor/nicotine-products sector, where the Juul–Altria dispute family spans both antitrust claims and patent infringement actions over vaporizer devices and cartridges (e.g., the NJOY/Altria actions at the ITC, Inv. No. 337-TA-1460, and in D. Del., and Juul's mirror patent suit against NJOY/Altria, No. 2:25-cv-02853-JT (D. Ariz.)). I could not verify from public dockets which of these strands the tracked matter corresponds to, so the technology characterization should be treated as sector-level, not case-specific.

Side preference. Her recorded profile is one appearance, entirely on the defendant side, in a counsel role (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant). That is consistent with a practice built on defending operating companies in high-stakes commercial and antitrust litigation. There is no tracked plaintiff-side patent assertion work and no indication of NPE/PAE prosecution or assertion practice.

Firm context and notable matters. Covington & Burling is her firm of record; I found no prior-firm or in-house history in the sources reviewed. Reported career highlights are antitrust matters — advising GE on its $21.4 billion BioPharma sale to Danaher, representing Disney in its $71 billion acquisition of certain 21st Century Fox businesses, and obtaining dismissal with prejudice of antitrust and unfair competition claims against Tripadvisor (2021). None of these are patent cases, and I found no reported patent verdicts or Federal Circuit appeals attributable to her.

PTAB / IPR. No IPR or PGR appearances are recorded for her, and the PTAB filings I located in the Juul–NJOY dispute list other firms as counsel (Fish & Richardson for NJOY as petitioner; Mintz for Juul as patent owner). Nothing indicates regular PTAB practice.

Bar / education. J.D., Columbia Law School (2006); D.C. practice (admission dates reported as 2006 by Best Lawyers and 2009 by Super Lawyers). On background: her practice descriptions come from Covington announcements, Concurrences, Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. Note the disambiguation risk — "Anne Lee" is a common name — but only one Covington attorney matching this profile surfaced, and she is not described in any source as a registered patent attorney or patent litigator.