Robert Dougherty

  • Senior Staff Attorney
  • Philadelphia
He / Him
  • rdougherty@hausfeld.com
  • 215-985-3270
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-d-8abb901b/
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OVERVIEW

Robert is an attorney in Hausfeld’s Philadelphia office, specializing in antitrust enforcement and class actions.

Prior to working at Hausfeld, Robert worked as an insurance defense litigator primarily representing individuals being sued for personal injuries.

 

EDUCATION

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2015

Penn State University, Marketing, 2010

BAR ADMISSIONS

Pennsylvania

AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association, Member (2023 - Present)

Experience

Antitrust/Competition

  • In re da Vinci Surgical Robot Antitrust Litigation – Part of team representing proposed class of hospitals.
  • In re Automatic Card Shufflers Litigation – Represents a class of casino operators that purchased automated deck shufflers at an artificially high price because of defendants’ monopolization of the market.  Plaintiffs allege defendants monopolized the market for automated card shufflers through abuse of the patent system and judicial process to exclude and drive out competitors.

Commercial & Financial Disputes

  • TOT Power Control, S.L. v. Apple Inc. – In which a Spanish telecommunications company is asserting patents against Apple, Samsung, and LG.