Anita Varma
Key details
- Job title: Partner
- Organisation:White & Case
Anita Varma is a partner at White & Case and the firm’s immediate past global chair of the IP practice, based in Boston with a dual practice in London.
She is qualified to practice before both the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office.
Varma advises life sciences companies on strategic patent matters across the full product lifecycle. Her practice focuses on developing and executing global patent strategies, including patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, and offensive and defensive portfolio management.
She regularly counsels clients on patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate analyses, and pre-litigation opinions, as well as intellectual property due diligence in connection with strategic transactions and FDA Orange Book listings.
She has experience with biosimilar and biopharmaceutical patent work and with a broad range of technologies, including antibody therapeutics, gene therapy, RNA-based therapies, CRISPR, and small molecules.
