Tara Thigpen is an associate in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation group who focuses her practice across a wide variety of industries including life sciences and technology companies. Tara represents companies in complex disputes through all phases of litigation, including pre-suit investigations, discovery, claim construction, motion practice, trial, post-trial proceedings, mediations, and arbitrations. Tara is an editor of Goodwin’s Big Molecule Watch, which provides updates and analyses on regulatory issues, litigation, legislation, and other news in the ever-developing world of biosimilars.
Professional Experience
Tara focuses her practice on a variety of intellectual property matters. Her experience includes working on patent litigation matters, focused on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, patent infringement, trademark infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets. Some recent engagements include:
- Representing Zealand Pharma A/S and Zealand Pharma U.S. Inc. in a trade secret litigation in the District of Massachusetts
- Representing Callan Marine, Ltd. in a trade secret litigation in the District of Massachusetts
- Representing Trusted Inc. in trademark infringement disputes in the Southern District of Ohio and the Western District of New York
- Representing a pharmaceutical company in a patent infringement litigation in the District of Massachusetts through jury trial, resulting in a favorable jury verdict
- Representing a biotechnology company in an arbitration proceeding arising from intellectual property license and commercial agreement disputes
- Representing several pharmaceutical companies in BPCIA patent dance proceedings
- Representing a software company in patent infringement and trade secret litigation
Prior to joining Goodwin, Tara was an associate in the Boston office of Proskauer Rose LLP and an associate in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
Prior to law school, Tara worked in compliance for biopharmaceutical company.
Professional Activities
- Boston Intellectual Property Law Association
- Boston Bar Association
Pro Bono
Tara maintains an active pro bono practice, including working with the New England Innocence Project and Massachusetts ACLU.
Credentials
Education
JD2017
Vanderbilt University Law School
MPH2014
Boston University
BS2011
Boston University
Admissions
Bars
- Massachusetts
- New York
Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Recognition & Awards
- Tara was a part of a team recognized in Law.com’s Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs for achieving a successful non-infringement verdict in a patent infringement case
- Tara was part of a team recognized in Law.com’s Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs for achieving a successful verdict in a patent infringement case
- While attending law school, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, an Associate Justice of the Moot Court Board, and a recipient of the Lightfoot, Franklin & White Best Brief Award and the Scholastic Excellence Award for Legal Writing