Honors and Awards: Mr. Figg has been selected as a leading intellectual property attorney in Best Lawyers in America. He also has been listed among Washington's best IP lawyers in The Washingtonian (December 2007), and was recognized in 2007 "Washington DC Super Lawyers" list, published by Law & Politics. He also has been inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Special Licenses/Certifications: Admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Bar/Professional Activity: Past Chair of the Section of Intellectual Property Law of the American Bar Association (ABA).  Former member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs and chair of the IPL Section Amicus Briefs Committee.  Former member of the ABA's Coordinating Committee on Bioethics.Four-year term on the Council of the Section of Intellectual Property Law.  Current Chair the IPL Section's Patent Law Reform Task Force, member of its Nominating Committee and Section Parlimentarian.  Member of American Intellectual Property Law Association.  Member of the Executive Committee of AIPPI United States, which is the U.S. group of the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle, an international association of intellectual property professionals. Member of the District of Columbia Bar and its Intellectual Property Law Section, the Licensing Executives Society, and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.  Member of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property of the Franklin Pierce Law School and previously served on the Georgetown University Law School Advisory Committee.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: "The Intersection of State Street and Biotech Boulevard," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Cambridge, England, July 18, 2000.  "Patent Litigation: Lessons from Recent Cases," Presented at the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Conference Law Seminars International, Atlanta, Georgia, April 23, 2002.  "Patent Law Perspective on the Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Balancing Competition and Patent Law and Policy," Presented to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, May 2004.

Representative Clients: City of Hope National Medical Center, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cobalt Pharmaceuticals Inc., GE Healthcare, Becton Dickinson, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Gen-Probe, Inc., Ferring Pharmaceuticals AS, AstraZeneca, BioMerieux Co., Synthon Laboratories, Inc., Sensors for Medicine and Science.

Other Outstanding Achievements: "Biotechnology: Science Fiction Becomes a Legal Reality," The Compleat Lawyer, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1986; "Intellectual Property - Special Considerations in the Biotechnology Field," Chemtech, May 1986; Case Comment, "Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories," Patent World, October 1993; "Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Research in the USA: A Cornucopia of Opportunity," Curr. Opinion Biotechnology, 6 (2), 135-41, April 1995; "The Impact of GATT on U.S. Patent Protection Laws," The Biotechnology Report 1995/96, p. 37, Camden Publ., Ltd.; "Patent Infringement Issues Unique to Biotechnology," Proceedings of the Joint Educational Program at the Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law and the Section of Science and Technology, American Bar Association, August 1987; "Bioscience Patent Prosecution Developments," Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Spring Educational Program, American Bar Association Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, March 1988; "Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Technologies," IX International Congress on Plant Tissue and Cell Culture, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998; "Corroboration Requirements When Prior Invention Is Asserted as a Basis of Invalidity Under § 102(g)," Proceedings of the Continuing Legal Education Program in Conjunction with the Ninth Annual National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies, September, 1999; "Enforcing Biotechnology Patents -- Doctrine of Equivalents," 17th Annual ATCC Biotech Patent & Licensing Forum, September, 1999; "Recent Developments in the Law of Inventorship, Best Mode Compliance and Double Patenting," Proceedings of the Continuing Legal Education Program in Conjunction with the Tenth Annual National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies, September, 2000.