Ashley Kwon

Ashley Kwon concentrates her practice in the areas of strategic patent counseling, patent prosecution and portfolio management, patent due diligence, post-grant Patent Office proceedings, and patent litigation support. 

Ashley counsels major pharmaceutical companies on complicated issues at the intersection of patent law and FDA regulations. In particular, Ashley has extensive experience preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent term extension applications, and advising clients on complicated issues relating thereto. She also provides advice to various clients regarding Orange Book listing issues.

Ashley manages global patent portfolios and handles prosecution of patent applications for several clients. She obtains valuable and defensible patent protection for her client's inventions. Ashley also has experience in a variety of post-grant Patent Office proceedings, including inter-partes review, ex-parte reexamination, and derivation proceedings. Prior to joining Covington, she was a U.S. Patent Examiner and examined patent applications in the areas of fuel cells and batteries.

Ashley also conducts due diligence investigations and serves as a consultant on patent issues in a variety of transactional contexts and across many sectors and technologies, including small-molecule pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices. She advises on a variety of complicated patent portfolio issues, including validity, infringement, and patent ownership.

Ashley also has experience in Hatch-Waxman litigation, at all stages from case assessment through trial and preliminary injunction proceedings. She works closely with the Patent Litigation Group in pre-litigation diligence matters to evaluate the strength of patents and patent portfolios.