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After training as a chemical engineer, Adda has practiced patent law for three decades: for 28 years with Darby & Darby, five years as managing partner of Merchant & Gould’s New York office, was a partner of Ascenda Law Group, of Leason & Ellis, and is currently with Hueschen & Sage. Adda is an intellectual property expert in multiple industry verticals, with clients ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to startups, along with growth companies, and academic and research institutions. Her deep experience in pharmaceuticals, biotech, diagnostics, food, and fine chemicals brings powerful insights to clients in formulating or adjusting global IP strategies. Seasoned at drafting and negotiating complex licensing agreements, developing patent prosecution strategies, and guiding patent portfolio architecture, Adda also litigates disputes for clients both in administrative and alternative resolution forums. Clients benefit from Adda’s long-standing expertise in patent extension, including orange book listing, lifecycle strategies and Paragraph IV challenges.

Among Adda’s prominent specialties are exculpatory and pre-assertion legal opinions on patents for biomolecules, pharmaceuticals/NMEs, and diagnostics. Adda has represented: AutoImmune, ContraFect, Forest Labs, Institut de Myologie, Novartis, Novozymes, Purdue Frederic, NYU, Recordati, Sandoz, UPM-Kymmene, Zoetis and Sloan Kettering among many others. Published writer and active speaker on IP matters in the US and overseas, Adda holds Chemical Engineering and JD degrees from Cornell University. A world traveler, Adda is used to the road. Even when home, you may find Adda cycling daily to and from her Manhattan office.