Jeff Risher

Jeff Risher has been an intellectual property litigator and strategist for more than two decades. His experience includes dozens of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret trials and appeals throughout the U.S. (including numerous matters before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Federal Circuit) and around the world, including China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, and Mexico.

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Mr. Risher has a unique understanding of the business complexities of patent litigation from the client perspective, having spent more than a decade overseeing complex litigation and licensing matters at major global technology companies, including Apple, where he served as Director of Patent Litigation and as Director of Patent Strategy & Licensing, and Tesla, where he served as Chief IP Counsel and as Chief Litigation Counsel. In addition, Mr. Risher served as Patent Litigation Counsel at Abbott Laboratories, where he was responsible for medical device, immunology and pharmaceutical patent cases, as well as six years as a trial lawyer at two major Southern California law firms, with a focus on medical devices, prior to his in-house career.

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Mr. Risher has represented public technology companies in many dozens of high-stakes mediations and arbitration proceedings, and he regularly advises clients on IP strategy, patent portfolio development, licensing, patent acquisitions, strategic relationships, technology transfers and joint development deals. He has personally negotiated and drafted in excess of 100 patent licenses, cross-licenses and patent purchase agreements between some of the most sophisticated technology companies in the world, and was honored to have been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine (IAM) as one of the “World’s Top IP Strategists,” based on industry peer nominations.