Corinne E. Atton, FCIArb

+1 347-773-3883 (Direct)

corinne.atton@draperllc.com

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Corinne E. Atton has extensive experience advising clients in complex, high-stakes commercial and patent litigations, and international arbitrations.  She has advised on a wide variety of disputes concerning a broad array of technologies, and has a particular focus on climate change issues.  

Corinne also has extensive experience litigating high-stakes U.S. interstate and transboundary water disputes, and is currently a Special Assistant Attorney General to the State of New Mexico in its long-running dispute with the State of Texas concerning the Rio Grande.  

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Corinne is an accomplished litigator and trial attorney.  She has represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and various U.S. district courts.  She has also represented clients in inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the administrative law body of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). 

Corinne is dual-qualified and is able to represent clients in matters concerning English law.  She is admitted to the bar in the States of New York and Massachusetts, and to the bar of England and Wales.  She has rights of audience before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, S.D.N.Y, E.D.N.Y, the District of New Mexico; and before all courts in England and Wales, including the U.K. Supreme Court.   

Corinne has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Human Genetics from University College London (UCL), and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. 

Corinne formerly practiced as a barrister in England and Wales where she represented clients in high-stakes intellectual property (IP) matters with a particular focus on patent litigation. 

In 2003, she joined WilmerHale in London and split her practice between IP and commercial litigation, and international arbitration matters under the direction of Gary Born.

In 2007, Corinne moved to New York and completed an LL.M. at Columbia Law School, where she was an assistant to Professor George Berman working on the American Law Institute (ALI) Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. 

Corinne then joined Weil, Gotshal and Manges, WilmerHale, and then Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto (now Venable LLP) in New York, where she gained broad experience of litigious and transactional IP matters with a particular focus on pharmaceuticals, biologics, life sciences, and medical devices. 

In 2020, Corinne joined Draper & Draper LLC where she now splits her practice between international arbitration, and appellate work before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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SELECT REPRESENTATIONS

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International Arbitration:​​​

• Counsel for Professor George A. Bermann (Gellhorn Professor of Law and Monnet Professor in European Union Law, Columbia Law School), Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Petition For Writ of Certiorari, Beijing Shougang Mining Investment Company, Ltd., et al., v. Mongolia, 21-1244 (U.S. Supreme Court).

• Representing various entities in enforcement actions of foreign arbitral awards and in vacatur petitions before U.S. district courts.

• Advising a technology company in an IP license dispute in an ICC arbitration seated in Paris.

• Representing a major construction company in an ICDR arbitration seated in New York. 

• Represented a leading international luxury brand in an IP and franchise dispute with a Middle Eastern franchisee in an ICDR administered arbitration.

• Represented a Central Asian state-owned electric utility in a dispute concerning a hydroelectric plant in an ICC arbitration seated in Dubai.

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Natural Resources - Transboundary Water Disputes:

• Currently Special Assistant Attorney General to the State of New Mexico in Texas v. New Mexico & Colorado, No. 141 Orig., U.S. Supreme Court (2024).

• International Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, Amicus Curiae Brief in Suppo rt of Neither Party, State of Mississippi v. State of Tennessee et al., No. 143 Orig., U.S. Supreme Court (2021).

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Other Supreme Court Litigation:

• Counsel for Professors Joost Blom, K.C. and Dr. Aubin Calvert, Amicus Curiae Brief​ in Support of Petition For Writ of Certiorari, Falkbuilt Ltd., et al., v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al., 23-131 (U.S. Supreme Court).

• Counsel of Record, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Amicus Curiae Brief in the Support of Petition For Writ Of Certiorari, Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Svcs., LLC, No. 19-430, U.S. Supreme Court.* 

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Patent & IP Litigation:

• Certain Child Carriers, Components Thereof and Products Containing the Same, Inv. No. 337-TA-1154, 337-TA-1154 (U.S. International Trade Commission)*

• Astellas Pharma Inc. v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC et al., 1:16-cv-905 (D. Del.).*

• Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Breckenridge Pharmaceutical et al., 1:14-cv-1043 (D. Del.).*

• Biogen MA, Inc. v. Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research, 14-1695 (Fed. Cir.).*

• Amdocs (Israel) Limited v. Openet Telecom, Inc., et al., 1:10-cv-00910 (E. D. Va.); 13-1212 (Fed. Cir. 2014).*

• Jay, M.D. v. Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. et al., 1:13-cv-08137 (S.D.N.Y.).*

• Sciele Pharma Inc., et al. v. Lupin Ltd., et. al., 1:09-cv-00037 (D. Del.); 12-1228 (Fed. Cir. 2012).*

• Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Actavis Inc. et al., 1:12-cv-366 (D. Del.).*

• GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Anchen Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al., 1:11-cv-46 (D. Del.).*

• Tyco Healthcare Group LP v. CR Bard Inc. et al., 1:09-cv-00264 (D. Del.).*

• Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Dell, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., 6:08-cv-273 (E.D. Tex.).*

• Unilin Beheer B.V. v. Berry Floor N.V. [2005] EWCA Civ 1292 (U.K. Court of Appeal).*

• Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. v. Remington Consumer Prod. Ltd. [2006] EWCA Civ 16 (U.K. Court of Appeal).*

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USPTO PTAB Proceedings:

• IPR2020-00165 (Bausch Health Companies Inc. v. Flow Pharma Inc.).*

• IPR2018-00079 (Sawai USA, Inc. v. Astellas Pharma Inc.).*

• IPR2016-00078 (Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. v Novartis AG).*

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       *Experience prior to joining Draper & Draper LLC

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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• Lexology In Brief: Enforcing and Challenging Arbitral Awards in the USA (2023).​

• Equitable Apportionment of Transboundary Waters: Problems of Proof and Climate Change, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, Proceedings of the 69th Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute (2023).

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