Fish & Richardson Principal Craig Countryman named to Top 40 Under 40 by Two Publications

Fish & Richardson litigator Craig Countryman has been selected as a Top 40 Under 40, in separate awards programs by the Daily Journal and San Diego Daily Transcript. Both publications highlighted Countryman’s work on a patent case involving Fish client Halo Electronics Inc. in a groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court case. Also noted was Countryman’s involvement in another patent case, one that clarified new rules for inter-partes review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Countryman, who is 34 years old, is co-chair of Fish’s appellate practice and is based in the firm’s Southern California office in San Diego. He has led the briefing in over 30 Federal Circuit, Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court appeals and has argued several of them. In 2015 alone, he received favorable decisions in four appeals. He also writes frequently on a variety of patent law topics and has published over 25 articles and dozens of posts on Fish’s litigation blog.

Before attending law school, Countryman was a chemist and developed a new stereoselective synthesis of a pain-killing drug using an organocatalytic cycloaddition. He received his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 2006, and his B.S. in chemistry, with honors, from the California Institute of Technology in 2003.