Barbara Fiacco is a Partner, co-chair of the Intellectual Property Department and co-chair of the Patent, Trade Secrets, and Related Rights Litigation Practice at Foley Hoag LLP.  In her practice, she handles complex intellectual property and business disputes in the life sciences industry, involving therapeutic proteins and antibodies, gene therapy products, small molecule compounds, drug delivery systems, molecular diagnostics, epigenetic methods, single-cell sequencing technology, and medical devices.  She has successfully litigated patent, trade secret, and inventorship disputes for global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers and research institutions.  Barbara is a Past President of the American Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA). She is recognized as a leading IP lawyer Chambers USA, IAM Patent 1000, and Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.