Patrick J. Niedermeier is Patent Counsel in the Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group.
Patrick represents clients from large corporations to start-up entities before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is experienced in all phases of patent prosecution, including accelerated examination, provisional filings, continuation practice, appeal briefing, design patents and foreign patent strategy. He also has prosecuted several trademark filings to registration.
In addition, Patrick assists clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights both in the U.S. and abroad. He represents corporate clients throughout the complex patent litigation process, including pre-suit investigations and client counseling; negotiating discovery disputes; drafting claim construction, summary judgment, expert, and pre- and post-trial briefs; assisting with trial preparation; and participating at trial. He also has assisted with preparing appellate briefs for submission to the Federal Circuit.
Patrick’s work spans a broad range of technology sectors that include network security, wireless communications, telecommunications and telephony devices, video conferencing, mobile computing, weather and greenhouse gas instruments, optical discs, video compression and on-demand streaming, 3D image processing, machine vision, RFID/NFC technology and financial services software, as well as life insurance annuity products.
In addition to litigation and prosecution matters, Patrick is highly experienced in leading intellectual property due diligence review for large-scale corporate transactions. He regularly advises clients on intellectual property portfolio management and development including legal opinion work, and performs patent landscape and freedom- to-operate analyses.
Patrick also has written several articles for Proskauer’s New England IP Blog on various patent litigation and prosecution topics.
While at Boston College Law School, Patrick served as a legal intern to the Honorable Robert B. Collings, Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to that, he was an IT Specialist at IBM Global Services and a software engineer and enterprise database administrator at New England Confectionery Co.
Education
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Boston College Law School, J.D., 2008
Senior Staff, Law and Religion Program
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Boston College, B.A., 1999
Golden Key National Honor Society
Admissions & Qualifications
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Memberships
Boston Patent Law Association
Matters
Representative Litigation Matters
- ADREA, LLC v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) Represented ADREA in asserting patent infringement claims relating to electronic book technology.
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NTP, Inc. v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. (E.D. Va.) Defended T-Mobile against patent infringement claims relating to wireless communications in email systems.
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NISTAC v. American Honda Motor Co. (E.D. Mich.) Defended Honda against allegations of infringement of patents related to piston design and piston lubricant chemical composition.
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In the Matter of Certain Machine Vision Software, Machine Vision Systems, And Products Containing Same (U.S.I.T.C.) Represented Cognex in an action before the International Trade Commission seeking to stop the importation of articles containing Cognex’s machine vision technology.
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Analog Devices v. Knowles Electronics (U.S.I.T.C) Obtained a finding of infringement and an exclusion order on behalf of Analog Devices following a competitor’s use of Analog’s patented anti-stiction technology for MEMS devices.