Sterne Kessler’s Eldora Ellison Named Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year for the DC Metro Region at the 2025 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards

Washington, D.C. (September 8, 2025) – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is proud to announce that Director Eldora L. Ellison, Ph.D. has been named Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year for the DC Metro region at the 2025 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards. The firm was also named a finalist for Inter Partes Review Firm of the Year, Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year, and Patent Strategy Firm of the Year.

Ellison is a highly regarded life sciences intellectual property attorney, known for her extensive experience in inter partes patent matters and strong foundation in patent prosecution. A director in Sterne Kessler’s Biotechnology & Chemical and Trial & Appellate Practice Groups, Ellison co-chairs the firm’s award-winning PTAB Trials practice and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. This award follows her many accolades from renowned publications, including Chambers USA, IAM, Managing IP, and World IP Review. Ellison was named “Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year” by LMG Life Sciences in 2017 and 2019, and inducted into the prestigious Hall of Fame in 2021.

For the last 13 years, the LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards has recognized accomplished firms and practitioners for their work in the life sciences over twelve months across the United States, Canada, and Brazil. A team of researchers analyze a combination of firm questionnaires, lawyer interviews, and client survey data to determine the winners.

See the full 2025 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards winners here.

About Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

Based in Washington, D.C. and renowned for more than four decades for dedication to the protection, enhancement, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is one of the most highly regarded intellectual property specialty law firms in the world. Its team of attorneys, registered patent agents, technical specialists, specialized trademark paralegals, and law clerks include some of the country’s most respected practitioners of IP law, tackling innovations across a broad spectrum of industries. The firm’s practitioners represent Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, inventors, venture capital firms, and universities in a client service driven environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. Visit the firm online at sternekessler.com.