Experienced Patent dispute Counsel

Andrew is a patent litigator with a decade of legal and technical expertise. Over the course of his career, he has earned victories for his clients in district court, before the Patent Office, and at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Among Andrew’s core strengths as a litigator are his skills in crafting early non-infringement and invalidity positions, work with expert witnesses, and handling parallel proceeding post-grant expertise.

In his decade practicing, Andrew has most frequently appeared in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Northern District of Illinois, and the District of Delaware. This experience has spanned all stages of litigation, including case assessment and parallel proceeding strategy, arguing at Markman hearings, taking and defending depositions, briefing and arguing dispositive motions, preparing expert and fact witnesses and cross examinations at jury trials, and participating in Federal Circuit appeals.

Andrew pairs his technical strengths with post-grant procedural strategy, where he has worked with dozens of clients in ex parte reexaminations and at the PTAB in inter partes reviews. Andrew was also a longtime contributing author to The PTAB Handbook, providing ongoing updates and strategy recommendations for practitioners before the Board as it evolved.

Over the course of his career, Andrew’s work has spanned clientele of all sizes and cases of all subjects—from solo inventors to Fortune 5 companies and from networking 5D data, synchronized speakers, and databases to diesel engine valves, hydrofoils, and medical devices. Andrew has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers and is a regular contributor on patent matter news and strategy, including at Law360.