W. Chad Shear

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cshear@cooley.com
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About W. Chad

Chad represents pharmaceutical companies in high-stakes patent litigation in the US and abroad. He is known globally for successfully protecting the intellectual property rights and assets for his clients in make-or-break disputes that determine returns on multibillion-dollar investments and decades of research.

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Experience

Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Out-Licenses GLP-1 Portfolio

Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Out-Licenses GLP-1 Portfolio

May 17, 2024

Cooley advised Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China, on its licensing of global rights (excluding Greater China) for the development, production and commercialization of three of its proprietary glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs to Hercules CM Newco, a newly established Delaware company.

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Related Practices & Industries

Mergers and Acquisitions
Healthcare
Life Sciences
Life Sciences Corporate Partnering and Licensing
Asia

I have found Chad to be incredibly strategic. He has a great ability to explain complex issues in a very easy way to understand.

Chambers USA, 2024

Admissions and credentials

US Patent and Trademark Office

California

Delaware

Rankings and accolades

Chambers USA: Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation – California (2024)

Daily Journal: Top Intellectual Property Lawyer – California (2019); California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) award (2018)

Euromoney: Top 30 Legal Practitioner in Life Sciences (2019, 2021)

IAM Patent 1000: Leading IP Lawyer (2019 – 2023)

LMG Life Sciences: Life Sciences Star (2017 – 2022); Patent Impact Case of the Year (2022); General Patent Litigator of the Year honoree (2022); Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year honoree (2020); Inter Partes Attorney of the Year honoree (2017)

National Law Journal: Intellectual Property Trailblazer (2019), Winning Litigator (2018)

Memberships and affiliations

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Federal Circuit Bar Association

Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court – Federal Circuit

Chad is a brilliant attorney. He’s very likeable, very sharp and very hardworking … He’s represented us successfully in multibillion-dollar cases.

Client testimonial, Thomson Reuters