Robert A. Schroeder

Patent Litigation

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Experience

Robert A. Schroeder has been a patent litigator for more than 30 years. He has been lead counsel in many patent cases, as well as trade secret, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade dress cases, and has handled IP arbitrations before domestic and international tribunals.  He also provides clients with opinions on patent infringement matters and frequently advises with respect to licensing agreements and intellectual property acquisitions.  In addition, he supervises patent prosecution and maintenance programs and counsels clients as to intellectual property generally.  Most recently, Mr. Schroeder was a partner and Practice Group Leader for intellectual property litigation at Bingham McCutchen.

He is experienced in appeals before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the Second, Seventh, Ninth and Federal Circuits, and in 20 different U.S. District Courts, and has handled cases involving a wide range of technologies, including air pollution control systems (“scrubbers”); food products; packaging and processing; analytical telephony circuits; bar code equipment; digital recording techniques; solid state computer memory systems and disk drives; electronic gaming systems; premise wiring systems; intraocular lenses; agricultural equipment; armaments; aircraft components; and medical devices.    

Mr. Schroeder regularly writes and speaks for organizations such as: the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Licensing Executives Society, the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association and the Practicing Law Institute. 

Mr. Schroeder began his career as a patent examiner assigned to the Physics Group at the United States Patent Office. Subsequently, he founded the boutique intellectual property law firm, Pretty & Schroeder. 

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

            California

U.S. District Courts:

Northern District of Illinois

District of Arizona 

District of Connecticut

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Education

Cornell Law School

Ithaca, NY

            J.D.

Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

            B.S., Engineering and Management

Professional Leadership

American Bar Association

California Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association

American Arbitration Association Panel of Patent Arbitrators (Past Member)

Licensing Executive Society (Past Member)

Publications

“Selected Discovery Related Issues in Pretrial Litigation,” PLI Patent Litigation (2004)

“Licensing of Rights to Intellectual Property,” Albany Law Review (1986)

Awards and Honors

The Best Lawyers in America, 2007

Southern California Super Lawyer, Los Angeles Magazine, 2006-2007