Susan Morrison

Susan Morrison is a patent trial lawyer and litigator, and the managing principal of Fish & Richardson's Delaware office. Her practice encompasses a broad range of technologies, with particular experience in life sciences litigation, representing branded pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies across diverse technologies such as ophthalmic medications, Hepatitis C treatments, gene therapy, and surgical stents. She also handles matters in the advertising technology, cybersecurity, software, and general technology sectors, including cases involving smart speaker technology.

While the tracked cases show her primarily defending operating companies, her broader practice includes representing patent holders (plaintiffs). For example, she secured a $31 million jury verdict for plaintiffs in a patent litigation concerning tire pressure monitoring systems. She also achieved favorable judgments of infringement and validity for pharmaceutical clients in Hatch-Waxman litigation, including Federal Circuit affirmations, and obtained favorable settlements in other pharmaceutical disputes.

Morrison regularly appears in post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), including inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings, acting for both patent holders and petitioners across various technology areas. In the tracked case VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al. (D. Del.), where she served as local counsel for Amazon, a jury found Amazon liable for willful infringement of four patents related to its Alexa smart speaker technology, awarding $46.7 million in damages. The related Smart Speaker LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC case is ongoing, with Amazon initiating IPR challenges against the asserted patents. Separately, Morrison secured an early summary judgment of patent invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for Amazon in the case CyberFone Systems, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. (D. Del.).

She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2005, and a B.S., with high honors, in Cellular Biology from Haverford College in 2001. She is admitted to practice in Delaware, before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.