5 Trends to Watch: 2023 Medical Device Industry

David Dykeman, who serves as Co-Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's Boston office and co-chairs the firm's global Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group, is a registered patent attorney with 25 years of experience in patent and intellectual property law. David's practice focuses on securing worldwide intellectual property protection and related business strategy for high tech clients, with particular experience in life sciences, medical devices, robotics, materials, and information technology. David provides strategic patent portfolio development and intellectual property advice for clients including major research institutions, multi-national corporations, and start-up companies. He also performs patent due diligence to assess patent portfolios for venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing opportunities. An author of over 55 articles and a speaker at over 50 conferences on intellectual property law, David is the founding co-chair of the ABA’s Medical Devices Committee. In 2022, LMG Life Sciences named him the Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year for Massachusetts. He was honored as one of Boston's "40 Under 40" innovative business leaders by the Boston Business Journal and was named to the "40 Medtech Innovators Under 40" list by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) Magazine. David has also been named one of the top 250 Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners in the world by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine, an "IP Star" by Managing IP magazine, a "Life Science Star" by LMG Life Sciences, one of the World's Leading IP Strategists in the IAM 300, and ranked in Chambers. Concentrations Intellectual property Patent prosecution and opinions Licensing IP due diligence Trademarks and unfair competition Copyrights

Ginger Pigott provides critical product liability advice and litigation defense to emerging and established businesses. As a shareholder in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice, Ginger manages products liability litigation matters with an emphasis on the defense of complex medical device and pharmaceutical products. She handles high-stakes, single-plaintiff cases (including through trial) and complex litigation, including MDLs, coordinated state actions and class actions working as both national and regional counsel. She also works with companies to reduce and eliminate litigation risk through essential assessment and review of potential product liability exposure, including helping to organize and establish more effective claims handling in pre-litigation as well as in identifying and reducing risk producing activities and providing information to allow companies to understand triggers for potential exposure and manage such risks. She has defended medical device products liability lawsuits involving a wide range of products, including spinal/biological devices, neurological devices, diabetes management devices, cardiovascular devices, implantable devices for various indications, cardiopulmonary bypass equipment, imaging equipment, as well as other external medical devices and related equipment. She is also experienced in defending products liability cases involving pharmaceutical drugs, nutraceuticals and biologics. In addition, Ginger has worked on a wide variety of other product liability matters, including welding products and consumables, automobiles, buses and private shuttles, airplanes, helicopters, rocket propelled parachute systems, soft drinks, and video games. She has litigated several cases for rental car companies involving accidents and bodily injury claims, as well as transportation service providers in litigation related to injuries and damages caused by the alleged actions of shuttle bus drivers and other transportation operators. In both product cases and commercial litigation matters, she has experience with various unfair competition allegations including those derived from Section 17200 Unfair Competition Law (UCL), False Advertising laws (FAL) and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) in California and other states’ similar consumer protection statutes. Concentrations Products liability litigation Complex torts Products liability and mass torts Food & Beverage Environmental litigation Health and FDA business Transportation injury litigation Consumer Products eDiscovery and eRetention