Andy Rosbrook, Senior Counsel, Patent Litigation

Andy Rosbrook

Senior Counsel

Areas of Focus

Andy Rosbrook, Senior Counsel, Patent Litigation

Andy Rosbrook

Senior Counsel

arosbrook@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Represents clients in high-stakes patent infringement disputes across a wide range of technologies, including semiconductor memory, agricultural biotechnology, video display and streaming and consumer electronics.
  • Counsels clients on strategic IP enforcement, licensing and portfolio management, aligning legal objectives with broader business goals.
  • Advises clients in complex commercial disputes involving antitrust, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and breach of contract issues.

Andy Rosbrook is a seasoned patent litigator and trial lawyer who handles high-stakes proceedings in federal district courts nationwide, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in private arbitrations and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His practice spans the full lifecycle of IP disputes, from pre-suit investigation and strategy through trial, appeal and enforcement of judgments.

Andy takes a holistic, strategic approach to each engagement, working to understand clients’ business and competitive landscapes so that his clients’ legal strategies advance their commercial objectives. He has first-hand experience in every phase of litigation – developing case themes, managing complex fact and expert discovery, taking and defending depositions, arguing claim construction and dispositive motions, and examining witnesses at trial.

Representative Work
  • Representing an agricultural biotechnology company in a combined patent infringement and trade secret action in the Western District of Wisconsin, while simultaneously defending against antitrust claims challenging the client’s patent acquisition and licensing practices, a matter requiring detailed coordination of the client’s IP and competition strategies.
  • Enforcing a portfolio of 10 patents in the District of Colorado against a licensee who violated the terms of its license agreement, while defending against counterclaims of patent misuse and anticompetitive conduct.
  • Representing a consumer electronics company in patent infringement disputes concerning video displays and video streaming technologies in California federal courts.
  • Representing a leading semiconductor company in the Western District of Texas in a patent infringement action involving flash memory technology, including arguing claim constructions before the court.
  • Representing a data center infrastructure company against patent infringement claims in multi-district litigation.
  • Representing a consumer goods company in multiple lawsuits involving utility patents, design patents, trademarks, and trade dress claims, requiring coordination of a broader IP strategy.
  • Representing an eyewear company in asserting patents relating to lens filtering technology.
  • Representing a radio equipment manufacturer in a licensing dispute with a former employee.
  • Counseling a financial services client on patent landscape trends and outcomes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Enforcing IP rights against a client’s former employees who used the client’s patents and trade secrets to develop a competing product.
  • Defending one of the nation’s largest wireless carriers against patent infringement claims involving secure-access network technology.
  • Defending client against a governmental-entity licensor against a claim of underpayment of patent royalties.

Education
  • J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2009

  • B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2005

Bar Admissions
  • Texas

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Recognitions
  • Managing IP, IP Stars – Rising Star, 2023-2026.
  • The Legal 500 US, Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage), 2022.
  • IFLR, Rising Stars, Americas, Patents, 2021.
  • Euromoney, Expert Guides: Rising Stars, United States – Intellectual Property, 2020-2022.
Speeches and Publications
  • “Early Risk Assessment in the Halo of Octane Fitness: Protecting Against Enhanced Damages and Fee Shifting,” Bloomberg BNA’s Patent, Trademark, & Copyright Journal, December 30, 2016.

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