Derek J. Brader has joined Flaster Greenberg as a shareholder in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Departments and the firm’s Patent Practice Group.
Brader concentrates his practice on complex litigation including patent, trade secret, and trademark matters, with a focus on cases involving high technology. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts across the country and has handled dozens of post-grant proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Brader’s litigation experience has involved a wide range of technologies including artificial intelligence, cellular telephone infrastructure and handsets, CDMA, Wi-Fi, DSL, media streaming, Flash memory, optics and photonics, electronic payments, digital television, and surgically implantable medical devices such as stent grafts. In addition to patent litigation, Brader’s litigation experience includes trade secret cases involving departed employees and other alleged exfiltration of sensitive technology and business secrets. He has represented manufacturers, financial institutions, and other companies that have significantly invested in their technologies or their brands.
Before becoming an attorney, Brader worked as an electrical engineer. Upon graduation from law school, Brader clerked for Judge Paul S. Diamond of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and received his law degree summa cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law, graduating first in his class.
Brader practiced law at an AmLaw-ranked firm for more than a decade before joining Flaster Greenberg. He will be based out of the firm’s Philadelphia, PA office.
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