Kurt Fredrickson Ph.D.

Dr. Fredrickson’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling. Dr. Fredrickson has litigation experience with technology relating to internet advertising, semiconductor manufacturing, construction equipment, medical devices, and wearable electronics. Dr. Fredrickson has experience throughout a litigation’s entire life cycle, including pre-suit investigations, pleadings, discovery, infringement and invalidity contentions, claim construction, dispositive motions, and trial. Dr. Fredrickson has represented his clients in both District Court and the United States International Trade Commission. Dr. Fredrickson has represented clients varying from solo inventors to multinational corporations, and routinely represents both plaintiffs and defendants. Recently, Dr. Fredrickson represented a multinational electronics corporation as a plaintiff in trial in the District of Delaware, resulting in a finding of infringement of two patents and willful infringement.
 
Before law school, Dr. Fredrickson received his PhD and conducted computational physics and chemical engineering research for semiconductor processing and clean energy applications. Dr. Fredrickson previously worked as a chemical engineer in semiconductor processing, receiving a patent for his work.  As a patent agent, Dr. Fredrickson prepared patent applications for consumer electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, and clean energy companies.
 
At Berkeley Law, Dr. Fredrickson was an Articles Editor for the Berkeley Law and Technology Journal and worked at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Dr. Fredrickson is a member of the Order of the Coif and received an IP & Technology Certificate through his completion of IP-related course work.  Dr. Fredrickson received the American Jurisprudence Award (highest grade) in Evidence and participated in the McBain Honors Moot Court competition. Dr. Fredrickson’s note, “‘Otherwise Available to the Public’: Using § 102 to Avoid the Supreme Court’s Patent-Eligibility Quagmire” received the Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and the George Hutchinson Writing Award from the Federal Circuit Bar Association and has been accepted for publication in the Federal Bar Association Journal.

Prior Experience

• Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, San Francisco, CA, 2022
• Technical Advisor/Patent Agent, Patterson+Sheridan, LLP, San Jose, CA, 2018-2020
• Computational Chemist, Applied Materials, Sunnyvale, CA, 2017-2018
• Visiting Scholar, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2016-2017
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical Engineering Department, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, 2015-2017

Clerk & Government Experience

• Judicial Extern to the Hon. Janis Lynn Sammartino, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, 2021

Courts

• United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Other Distinctions

• George Hutchinson Writing Award, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Order of the Coif, UC Berkeley Law
• IP & Technology Law Certificate, UC Berkeley Law
• Aldo J. Test Award, Berkeley Technology Law
• Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin
• Ovshinsky Travel Award, American Physical Society
• Dean’s List, UC Davis
• Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, UC Davis

Memberships & Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court