Derek J. Brader

Derek J. Brader is a shareholder in the firm’s Intellectual Property & Litigation Departments and Patent Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on complex litigation including patent, trade secret, and trademark matters, with a focus on cases involving high technology. Derek 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 such as inter partes review and ex parte reexamination.

Derek’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, Derek’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, Derek worked as an electrical engineer for L-3 Communications (now known as L3Harris). His engineering work involved embedded system design, digital circuit design, and programmable logic design, including field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). He has also worked on secure communications systems including Type 1 cryptographic products, secure data radios, and virtual private network systems. Upon graduation from law school, Derek 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. 

Derek practiced law at an AmLaw-ranked firm for more than a decade before joining Flaster Greenberg.

• Represented a leading artificial intelligence company in connection with a dispute over technology transfer.
• Represented one of the world’s largest multinational telecommunications companies to defend a federal case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets relating to data storage technology, including allegations of reverse engineering of both firmware and hardware.
• Represented a major bank in a multi-district litigation to defend claims that its mobile banking and mobile payment platforms infringe patents on secure payment technology.
• Represented major consumer electronics company to defend multiple patent cases in Texas regarding cellular transceivers in mobile phones, tablets, and laptops, including both hardware and baseband firmware.
• Representedan optics manufacturer against its distributor that copied its product designs.
• Represented patent holder to enforce patents on pioneering CDMA digital cell phone networks and associated infrastructure equipment. 
• Represented patent holder in cases in Texas to enforce 19 patents relating to digital subscriber line (DSL) technology.
• Represented major electronics company in a suit in Texas to enforce patents related to video processing technology, the ATSC broadcast standard, and electronics packaging in flat panel televisions.
• Represented patent holders in cases in Delaware to enforce patents relating to endovascular stent grafts and vena cava filters.
• Represented European manufacturer of personal care products to enforce its patents against competing manufacturer of pharmacy brand products.
• Represented leading shopping network to defend trade dress claims against products sold through its retail network.

• Named “One to Watch” by The Best Lawyers in America 2025 for Intellectual Property, Technology, and Litigation – Intellectual Property Law.

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• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)