Claudia Schultze

Claudia Schultze is a Senior Intellectual Property Attorney at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, where her practice primarily focuses on patent litigation, with extensive experience in chemical and pharmaceutical fields. She often represents operating companies, consistently working on the defendant side in patent infringement matters, as evidenced by her tracked case history and firm profile.

Schultze's practice areas encompass a broad range of chemical and material sciences, including small and large molecules, chemical compositions, production processes, and medical devices. She provides counsel on intellectual property matters, including patent validity and invalidity analyses, freedom-to-operate, and non-infringement opinions. Her notable experience includes representing Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. in an ANDA litigation (Purdue Pharma Prods. L.P. v. Par Pharm., Inc., 642 F. Supp. 2d 329 (D. Del. 2009)), and successfully defending Julius Glatz GmbH, LIPtec GmbH, and KneX Worldwide LLC in an ITC patent infringement litigation concerning cigarette paper wrappers, which resulted in findings of no infringement and patent invalidity. She was also part of the team that secured a "no violation" determination for GC Corporation and GC America in an ITC case involving dental ceramics (Certain Dental Ceramics, Products Thereof, and Methods of Making the Same, Inv. No. 337-TA-1050).

While her firm actively engages in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Schultze's specific involvement in Inter Partes Review (IPR) or Post-Grant Review (PGR) proceedings is not explicitly detailed in publicly available case lists or her professional profile. However, as a registered patent attorney with experience in patent prosecution and validity analysis, her expertise is highly relevant to such proceedings. She also co-authored an article on managing patent troll litigation, further highlighting her defense-oriented perspective.

Schultze is admitted to the Delaware bar and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her court admissions include the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law in 2007, and holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1998), an M.A. (1995), and a B.S. (1995) from the Technical University of Berlin. Before her legal career, she worked as a senior research engineer and market development manager for INVISTA, North America, S.a.r.l. (formerly DuPont Textiles).