Suzie Vardanyan focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patent litigation in federal courts and in proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She represents clients in the life sciences industry, including leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Suzie also has experience litigating cases involving unfair competition, business-related torts, and breach of contract.
Before practicing law, Suzie was a research assistant at the Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research in Los Angeles, where she investigated serum B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) as a novel biomarker for monitoring and predicting outcomes in multiple myeloma patients. In that capacity, she contributed to multiple scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
Experience
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (J.D. 2018; Senior Note and Comment Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review); University of Southern California (M.S. in Global Medicine 2014, Keck School of Medicine); University of California, Los Angeles (B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics 2012)
- California
- Extern, Patent Pilot Program, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Summer 2017); Extern to Judge John A. Kronstadt, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Spring semester 2017)
- Armenian