Donna Meuth

Key details

  • Job title: Associate general counsel, IP
  • Organisation:Eisai

Donna Meuth is associate general counsel, IP at Eisai, where she manages a wide range of IP matters across biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry. Her work includes patent litigation, patent preparation and prosecution, due diligence reviews, and legal opinions on patentability, validity, and infringement.

She has experience in contested patent proceedings, including interferences, reexaminations, reissues, and appeals, as well as significant involvement in ANDA litigation through all phases—from pre-litigation strategy through trial and appeals to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Meuth began her career in private practice, including as counsel at WilmerHale and as a partner at Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, before the USPTO, and the Federal Circuit.