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Paul Macri

Paul Macri

Associate, New York
PHONE: 212-808-1063 FAX: 212-351-3401
Paul Macri’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related litigation, including proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Macri has experience in various aspects of litigation, such as due diligence, pre-filing investigation, discovery, deposition preparation, claim construction, brief writing, trial preparation, and appeals.

Prior to joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Macri served as a law clerk to Judge Jennifer L. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.  Before his clerkship, Mr. Macri worked as an associate at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst, & Manbeck, P.C. in Washington, D.C., where he primarily focused on technical areas such as chemicals, biopharmaceuticals, and medical devices, and contributed to both Hatch-Waxman and BPCIA litigation matters. Mr. Macri also previously served as a judicial intern to Judge Christopher J. Burke of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

While attending law school, Mr. Macri was actively involved in the Intellectual Property Law Society and served on the moot court board. He was a member of Drexel Law’s Giles S. Rich IP Moot Court Team, which won the Northeast Regional competition in 2022 and placed sixth at Nationals. Before law school, Mr. Macri was a Maryanoff Research Fellow at Drexel University, where he studied chemistry and focused his research on solar semiconductors.

Prior Experience

  • Associate, Rothwell, Figg, ernst, & Manbeck, P.C., Washington, DC, 2022-2024
  • Summer Associate, Rothwell, Figg, Ernst, & Manbeck, P.C., Washington, DC, 2021 

Clerk & Government Experience

  • Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Jennifer L. Hall, United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 2024-2025.
  • Judicial Intern to the Hon. Christopher J. Burke, United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 2020. 

Courts

  • Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 

Memberships and Affiliations

  • ABA-IPL 

Other Distinctions

  • Giles S. Rich IP Moot Court Competition – 2022 Northeast Regional Champion, Sixth Place at Nationals
  • Kline School of Law Moot Court Award for Excellence in an External Moot Court Competition 
  • CALI Awards: Litigation Drafting, Appellate Advocacy, Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility, and Mediation and Arbitration

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News & Publications

  • V. Tian and P. Macri, Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction Over Skinny Label Applications, IP Litigator, Vol. 28 No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2022

EDUCATION

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, J.D., 2022; magna cum laude; Robert B. Washburn Intellectual Property Law Scholarship; Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Intellectual Property Concentration

Drexel University College of Arts and Science, B.S., Chemistry, 2018; Maryanoff Research Fellow – Materials Chemistry and Semiconductors
 

ADMISSIONS

2024, New York

2022, District of Columbia

OFFICES