Christie Larochelle

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Christie L. Larochelle, Ph.D. — Goodwin Procter LLP (Boston) | IP Litigation; Life Sciences Disputes

Focus areas. Her tracked matters sit at two ends of the IP spectrum: consumer/enterprise electronics and biotech. Intel Corp. v. Proxense, LLC is a wireless-standards-adjacent dispute — the asserted patents cover Wi-Fi/piconet time-slot allocation, proximity-plus-biometric transaction authentication, and secure-element/TPM firmware (Intel PTT and CSME), with Proxense's parallel district case in W.D. Tex. invoking Intel's Wi-Fi Alliance membership. Bicara Therapeutics Inc. v. Johns Hopkins University is a life-sciences matter involving EGFR/TGFβRII bifunctional fusion-protein antibodies (ficerafusp alfa/BCA101). Goodwin's bio adds ITC Section 337 work for electronics and lighting manufacturers, Hatch-Waxman litigation for generic drugmakers, and trade secret, trademark, and licensing-dispute work. Her technical background is materials science and condensed-matter physics (luminescence, quantum dots), which maps sensibly onto the semiconductor/hardware side of her docket.

Side preference. The two tracked appearances are both plaintiff-side (2–0), but that count reflects procedural posture rather than a consistent NPE-prosecution practice. In both matters she is on the petitioner/plaintiff side of a PTAB filing — Intel as IPR petitioner against Proxense, Bicara as PGR petitioner against Johns Hopkins — while in the underlying district court cases Intel and Bicara are defendants. Other dockets confirm defense-side work: she sought pro hac vice admission for the Datavant/Universal Patient Key defendants in Management Science Associates v. Datavant (D. Del. 2020) and appeared alongside Quibi Holdings in its C.D. Cal. patent suits against Eko/JBF Interlude, resolved by stipulated dismissal with prejudice in September 2021. On balance she represents operating companies and life-sciences innovators on both offense and defense, not patent monetization clients.

PTAB / IPR experience. She appears regularly as PTAB counsel, typically as backup to Goodwin's Lori A. Gordon. Confirmed proceedings include IPR2025-00327/‑328/‑329 (Intel v. Proxense, petitioner side, on U.S. Patents 9,265,043, 8,219,129, and 8,457,672); IPR2025-00253/‑254/‑255 (Microsoft v. X1 Discovery, patent-owner side); and PGR2026-00025 (Bicara v. Johns Hopkins, petitioner side, on the '968 patent, filed February 2026). The Intel/Proxense petitions drew an adverse result: the Acting Director granted Proxense's discretionary-denial request and denied institution under § 314(a), citing settled expectations in patents in force over nine years.

Firm context, notable case, and credentials. She has been at Goodwin Procter since roughly 2019–2020 and was elected to the firm's partnership in October 2025. Before Goodwin she was an associate in Ballard Spahr's IP litigation group, and before law school she was a tenured physics professor at Franklin & Marshall College. Among the results her firm bio highlights is an ITC patent case for a multinational lighting manufacturer that went to trial with a finding of no liability for the client, upheld on appeal (no independent case name located, so treat as firm-reported). Her most prominent current matter is the Bicara/Johns Hopkins PGR and its related Massachusetts litigation, Y-Trap, Inc. v. Biocon Ltd. and Bicara Therapeutics, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-12678 (D. Mass.), where Judge O'Toole denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the correction-of-inventorship and state-law claims on September 30, 2025; note that I could not confirm her name on that district court docket specifically. Bar/admissions: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and USPTO (Reg. No. 75,020); admitted in D. Mass., E.D. Pa., and the Federal Circuit; JD, Villanova (2016, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif), PhD in Physics, University of Maine (2001), BS in Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins (1995); law clerk to Judge Richard G. Andrews, D. Del.

One caveat: her tracked footprint here is only two cases, so the picture is necessarily incomplete — the PTAB and district court records above fill in more than the case list alone reflects.