Attorney Profiles

Robert A. Schroeder

Patent Litigation

Robert A. Schroeder has been a patent litigator for more than 30 years. He has been lead counsel in patent cases, as well as trade secret, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade dress cases, has handled IP arbitrations before domestic and international tribunals. He is experienced in appeals before various circuit courts of appeal and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. 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 Lead for intellectual property litigation at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen. Before that, he founded the intellectual property firm of Pretty & Schroeder. He began his career as a Patent Examiner in the Physics Group of the United States Patent Office.

Mr. Schroeder 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 storm water management devices.

Mr. Schroeder oversees the firm’s contingent fee practice.