Stacy L. Taylor focuses her practice on worldwide patent prosecution, licensing, research collaborations, diligence investigations (e.g., for corporate mergers and acquisitions), regulatory compliance, trademark registration and litigation before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including interference proceedings and patent reexaminations. She co-chairs DLA Piper's Medical Device Industry Working Group.

Based in San Diego, Ms. Taylor has extensive experience handling intellectual property matters in the biomedical field, with particular emphasis on medical devices, including those used in intravascular procedures, vascular access, endosurgery, neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery, surgical instruments, diagnostics, cellular therapies, gene therapy, drug development and vaccines. She secures, manages and enforces intellectual property rights for biomedical companies, academic institutions and startup ventures, with particular emphasis on the latter. Ms. Taylor also has extensive experience in FDA regulatory matters pertaining to medical devices and frequently provides strategic advice concerning obtaining marketing approval and compliance with post-marketing requirements in the US and Europe.

A former trial lawyer, Ms. Taylor provides expert witness services in patent infringement litigation. She also advises private and public institutions (such as a state stem cell research grant organization) regarding development of policies governing ownership and commercialization of intellectual property.

In 1995, Ms. Taylor co-founded Endicor Medical, Inc., a privately funded corporation specializing in the development and manufacture of medical devices for use in cardiac and peripheral vascular surgery. While a partner in a law firm, she also served as general counsel to the company for several years, before its ownership and operation passed to ev3.

Ms. Taylor serves on the Medical Devices Committee of the Food and Drug Law Institute. Ms. Taylor is a member of the Licensing Executives Society, the Association of University Technology Managers, the International Trademark Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations devoted to the education and protection of children and is currently a member of the K-12 education subcommittee of BIOCOM, a biomedical trade industry group.

In 2003, she was the recipient of the Tribute to Women & Industry award, and was a 2002 Women Who Mean Business nominee. In 2008, the San Diego Daily Transcript named her to its list of San Diego's Top Attorneys.

In August 2009, she discussed the practical, legal and ethical implications of patents covering genes on "These Days," broadcast on the San Diego NPR affiliate KPBS. Ms. Taylor also participated in a follow-up forum, "Who Owns Your Genes?," at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.