Overview
Shaun Mahaffy’s practice focuses on patent litigation, primarily in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. Shaun has represented clients in Hatch-Waxman and jury trials, in appellate proceedings in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and in inter partes proceedings before the PTO.
Shaun graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 2005 and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California San Diego in 2010. In 2013 he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was the Executive Editor for the Yale Law Journal. Before joining Williams & Connolly in 2015, Shaun clerked for the Honorable Ellen S. Huvelle on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.