John B. Koss

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
• Firm Information
  Position

  Contract Attorney

  Firm Name

  Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Currently representing a publicly traded biotechnology company as national coordinating, strategy,
  discovery counsel in product liability disputes initiated in various state, federal,
  international courts involving two FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of lymphoma
  multiple sclerosis.
  Successfully represented a publicly traded biotechnology company in a wrongful death action brought in state court by the estate of a patient who died following post-market treatment with an FDA-approved pharmaceutical drug.
  Successfully represented
  managed discovery for a leading biotechnology company in a claim brought pro se by a patient who alleged to have suffered an adverse reaction to a placebo formula during participation in a clinical trial study.
  Successfully obtained a favorable settlement for a publicly traded diagnostic manufacturer in a bet the company arbitration premised on claims that the manufacturer's licensee had failed to develop the manufacturer's microRNA-based products as required by the governing licensing agreement.
  Successfully advised a publicly traded pharmaceutical company with respect to divestment of its cardiovascular research
  development pipeline as well as a favorable wind-up of an associated collaboration with another pharmaceutical company.
  Successfully obtained declaratory relief for a publicly traded biotechnology company in an arbitration brought against a collaboration partner seeking to withhold decision-making
  development rights in contravention of the governing collaboration agreement associated with a multibillion-dollar FDA-approved treatment for cancer
  rheumatoid arthritis.