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Thomas Hedemann is an associate in the firm’s Hartford office and practices primarily in the area of intellectual property and commercial litigation.

Thomas has experience in all aspects of litigation from pre-litigation counseling and strategy through fact and expert discovery, pre-trial motions and appeal. In the area of intellectual property, he has litigated cases involving diverse technologies, specializing in pharmaceutical cases brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act. In the area of commercial litigation, he has worked on matters involving supply contracts, employment contracts, insurance claims and various business torts.

Representative recent and ongoing cases include: In Re Gabapentin Patent Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1384 (D.N.J); Tyco Healthcare Group, LP et al. v. Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. et al., No. 07-1299 (D.N.J.); Genzyme Corporation v. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 09-2589 (D. Md.); Veto Pro Pac, LLC v. Custom LeatherCraft Manufacturing Co., Inc. and Home Depot, Inc., No. 08-0302 (D. Conn.); Nufern, Inc. v. Michael J. O’Connor, No. 3558 (Del. Ch.); Eric S. Klein v. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, No. 06-0652 (D. Conn.); Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc. v. URL/Mutual Pharmaceutical Cos., No. 06-4418 (E.D. Pa.); Zanfeld Laboratories, Inc. et al. v. Rite Aid Corporation and Ivy-Dry, Inc., No. 03-0093 (W.D. Mich.); INEOS Polymers Inc., v. BASF Aktiengsellschaft et al., No. 07-2817 (N.D. Ill.).

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Articles & Newsletters

• Raising the Bar of Patentability, Conneticut Law Tribune, April 21, 2008
• What is Patentable?, IP Law and Business, October 2007
• The Political Import of Intrinsic Objections to Genetically Engineered Food, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, January 2005.  Coauthored with Robert Streiffer
• Health Inequalities and Why They Matter, Health Care Analysis 10 (2002): 177-91. Coauthored with Dan Hausman and Yukiko Asada
• A Problem with the Individual Approach in the WHO Health Inequality Measurement, International Journal for Equity in Health 2002, 1:2 (2002). Coauthored with Yukiko Asada

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association