Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Jun. 24, 2019
STEM majors vs. Luddites: who makes the best patent litigators?
Patent litigators lacking a technical degree, particularly those who enter the field after law school, are a small minority of such practitioners, perhaps on the order of 10-20%, an estimate that I’ve confirmed with multiple patent litigators as reasonable.
Nathan N. Lowenstein
Founder and Managing Partner
Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP
Email: lowenstein@lowensteinweatherwax.com
Nathan specializes in IPR litigation. In the interest of full disclosure, He previously practiced at Irell & Manella LLP where he worked with Morgan Chu on several cases.
Morgan Chu and Bill Lee have much in common. They are, most would say, the two leading patent litigators in the country. Neither appears to have a technical degree.
This latter fact would strike many, both in and out of patent litigation, as counterintuitive. Patent cases almost invariably involve cutting edge technologies, significant technical complexity, and reams of technically dense documents sufficient to cause many an English...
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