John D. Pizzo

Summary — John D. Pizzo (Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, Bridgeport, WV)

Specialty / focus areas. Mr. Pizzo is a West Virginia commercial litigator whose core practice centers on oil and gas, coal, pipelines, and construction disputes, with a background in criminal defense dating to a clerkship for former U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley (N.D.W. Va.). His patent litigation work is an adjunct to that practice: he has served as local counsel in Hatch-Waxman/BPCIA pharmaceutical patent litigation in the Northern District of West Virginia — Mylan's home forum — most notably Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (1:22-cv-00061), the related In re: Aflibercept Patent Litigation MDL (1:24-md-03103), and Astellas US LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (1:21-cv-00032). His role in these matters is geographic local counsel rather than lead patent counsel.

Side preference. All tracked appearances are on the defendant side (1 of 1), all for Mylan entities, and all in a local-counsel capacity. There is no public indication he represents patent owners, NPEs, or plaintiffs in patent litigation, and no evidence of a prosecution practice.

Firm context / notable cases. He has spent his career at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC's Bridgeport office, where he was promoted to Member in January 2024 (promotion announced January 2024, effective that year). His most prominent tracked engagement is the Regeneron v. Mylan aflibercept litigation, a high-stakes BPCIA dispute over Eylea biosimilars; he withdrew as counsel in the related MDL in February 2025 (CourtListener docket entries). No jury verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements attributable to him personally were found in public sources, consistent with his supporting role.

PTAB / IPR experience. None identified. No appearances in IPR/PGR proceedings surfaced; his involvement has been confined to district-court local counsel work. (Note: a separate IPR proceeding, Mylan v. Regeneron (IPR2022-01225), arose from the same dispute, but no record links Mr. Pizzo to the PTAB side.)

Bar / education. Admitted to the West Virginia bar in 2015; J.D., West Virginia University College of Law (2014), where he later coached the school's ABA moot court team (Martindale-Hubbell; WVU Law).