Rachel Blitzer is an experienced intellectual property litigator who regularly manages technically complex cases relating to trade secrets, patent infringement, copyright, breach of contract, business torts, and antitrust. Ms. Blitzer’s litigation experience spans a broad range of technologies, including:
Ms. Blitzer draws on her extensive trial experience and technical facility to advance her clients’ interests in their most critical matters. Her practice includes consulting clients at all stages (from start-up to Fortune 500 companies) on sound IP strategy in order to best position them for monetization, asserting or defending future litigation, and compliance with their management and financial reporting duties. Ms. Blitzer’s litigation practice is complemented by her robust experience with IP licensing and diligence matters, including patent portfolio analyses, freedom-to-operate opinions, and contract drafting.
In addition to her work in federal district and appellate courts, Ms. Blitzer practices in state courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Additionally, Ms. Blitzer maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes political asylum petitions, immigration appeals, Violence Against Women Act self-petitions, unemployment insurance representations, will drafting and end-of-life planning, patent prosecution and counseling for small entities, and case reviews for The Innocence Project. She has also served on the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing.
Ms. Blitzer’s experience includes representing:
*Matters handled prior to joining Latham & Watkins
Four Latham teams were honored as winners of The American Lawyer’s prestigious Litigators of the Week column in 2023. The wins spanned multiple litigation practices and industries, including antitrust, intellectual property, securities, environmental and product liability, technology, and sports, among others.
A Latham team led by Tony Sammi and Rachel Blitzer is recognized for defending Universal Alloy Corp. from accusations it misappropriated trade secrets from Alcoa to unfairly compete for work making parts for Boeing.
Our Intellectual Property Litigation practice received this prestigious award for securing a number of successes over the past year “on all fronts across the spectrum of IP disputes and jurisdictions from coast to coast."