Doug H. Carsten

Mr. Doug H.
Carsten is Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP (Venture Capital).
He focuses his practice on complex patent litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.
Mr. Carsten is a member of the firm's IP Litigation Practice and the Life Sciences Industry Team.
Before joining Foley, Mr. Carsten was an attorney in the San Diego office of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP (which later became DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP).
His practice included intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation.
Prior to that he was an associate at the firm of Irell & Manella LLP, where his practice was primarily focused on complex biotechnology patent litigation.
Mr. Carsten earned his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1998.
He holds a Masters of Arts degree in organic chemistry from Harvard University (1995) and graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.S.
in chemistry and English literature (1993).