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Edgar R. Cataxinos - Salt Lake City, UT

141 W. Pierpont Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84101

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Updated: 05/29/2024

Salt Lake City Counseling & Strategic Planning Lawyer

Overview

Mr. Edgar R. Cataxinos has been practicing for more than 20 years, and is a founding member of Magleby Cataxinos. Prior to founding MC, Mr. Cataxinos spent 22 years with a patent prosecution and litigation boutique, acting as the managing partner for the last 14 years. Mr. Cataxinos' practice emphasizes patent preparation and prosecution and patent related litigation. Mr. Cataxinos performs patent and technology portfolio evaluations and audits for clients, and advises clients on intellectual property licensing, trademark cancellations and oppositions, and patent interferences.

Mr. Cataxinos has litigated intellectual property matters through trial and has successfully argued appeals before the Federal Circuit in patent matters. As co-counsel for life sciences company Ambry Genetics, Mr. Cataxinos successfully obtained a denial of Myriad Genetics' attempt to block sales of Ambry cancer-testing products. The Ambry case was the first test case after the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on gene patenting. The denial of the injunction was affirmed on appeal, and the case settled favorably. Mr. Cataxinos successfully represented a Fortune 500 agricultural company in numerous Ex-Parte Reexaminations, narrowing or cancelling patent claims, as part of a global strategy. Mr. Cataxinos successfully argued to the Federal Circuit for the reverse of a trial judge's claim construction and reversal of a jury verdict finding willful infringement by his client.

Mr. Cataxinos is a registered pharmacist with twenty years of industry experience in intravenous medications, pharmacokinetics, and general laboratory analysis. He has written in the area of Drug and Dietary Supplements and drafted model protocols for FDA approval of new drugs.

Mr. Cataxinos is listed in Utah Business Magazine's "Legal Elite" and Super Lawyers, both of which limit eligibility to only the top 5% of attorneys. He is regularly listed in the Mountain States Top 75 and Top 100, as one of the top 75 or 100 lawyers in all of Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Since 2007, Mr. Cataxinos has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, and was listed as Salt Lake City "Lawyer of the Year" for Copyright Law (2016), Patent Litigation (2015), and Patent Law (2013). He is also listed in IP Stars, and the iAM Patent 1000 (top 1000 Global Patent practitioners) for Patent Litigation & Prosecution. Since 2007, Mr. Cataxinos has been listed as a leading lawyer in Utah in Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business, in the area of Intellectual Property.

About Edgar R. Cataxinos

Current Employment Position(s)

  • Partner

Languages

  • Spanish

Practice Areas

  • Counseling & Strategic Planning
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Due Diligence
  • Intellectual Property & Other Complex Litigation
  • International
  • Opinions, Patents, Trade Secrets
  • Trademarks & Copyrights, Transactional & Licensing
  • Designs
  • Transactional & Licensing

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

  • Utah, 1995
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1995
  • U.S. District Court District of Utah, 1995
  • U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1996

Other Affiliations

  • Advisory Board member - Law and Biomedical Sciences (LABS) Center at the University of Utah Law School

Past Positions

  • University of Utah College of Law, Adjunct Professor
  • Trask Britt, Managing Director, Shareholder

Education

  • University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995
    J.D.
  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1987
    B.S.
    Major: Pharmacy

Ancillary Businesses

  • Registered Pharmacist

Articles

Published Works

  • A primer on patent due diligence , Edgar Cataxinos , Reprint FW April, 2010
  • PATENT REEXAMINATION PRACTICE AND STRATEGY , Edgar Cataxinos , Reprint FW July , 2010

Office Information

Address

141 W. Pierpont Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Fax

  • 801-359-9011

Achievements

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Included on the 2023 Mountain States Super Lawyers list


Past Lists

  • 2022 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2021 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2020 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2019 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2018 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2017 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2016 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2015 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2014 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2013 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2012 Mountain States Super Lawyers Super Lawyers list
  • 2011 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2010 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2009 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2008 Mountain States Super Lawyers list
  • 2007 Mountain States Super Lawyers list

View the profile for Edgar R. Cataxinos on Super Lawyers

Honors

  • Best Lawyers, 2007 - 2018
  • Best Lawyers SLC Copyright Law Lawyer of the Year, 2016, 2019
  • Best Lawyers SLC Patent Litigation Lawyer of the Year, 2015
  • Best Lawyers SLC Patent Law Lawyer of the Year, 2013
  • Chambers, 2008 - 2018
  • IAM Patent 1000 (Patent Litigation & Prosecution), 2012 - 2018
  • IP Stars, 2013 - 2014
  • Super Lawyers, 2007 - 2018
  • Super Lawyers Mountain States Top 75, 2011
  • Super Lawyers Mountain States Top 100, 2012 - 2014
  • Utah Legal elite, 2007
  • Utah Legal Elite, 2010 - 2018

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