Special Counsel*
*Resident in Sydney, Australia; Admitted to practice law in the United States and Australia
Bob offers clients valuable business insight, having served as vice-president of legal, acting and deputy general counsel for a Silicon Valley-based, NASDAQ-listed semiconductor design company.
Over the past 25 years, Bob's experience has spanned the fields of semiconductors, cryptography and blockchains, telecommunications and mobile phones, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and health supplements, gaming devices, sporting equipment, and consumer products. He has represented clients in numerous U.S. district courts as well as at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the European Commission, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge H. Robert Mayer.
In addition to litigation, Bob works with clients to create and manage international IP portfolios, negotiate complex IP disputes, draft license agreements and settlements involving all aspects of IP, and conduct IP due diligence and other internal corporate and technology investigations.
Bob has worked in New York, Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, and Sydney, where his insight as a qualified Australian solicitor and registered trade marks attorney have proven particularly beneficial in counseling Australia-based clients with interests in the U.S. market.
Nested Bean, Inc. v. Big Beings USA Pty. Ltd. et al.
Representing Big Beings dba Love To Dream in an IPR before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) involving baby swaddle suits.
IPR2020-01234, PTAB, Judges Weatherly, Cherry, Pinkerton
Certain Krill Oil Products and Krill Meal for Production of Krill Oil
337-TA-1019, ITC, Judge Lord
Articles
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January 12, 2023
Bloomberg LawCommentary
Vidal Revives Baby Swaddle Patent Claims Axed by PTAB Vidal Revives Baby Swaddle Patent Claims Axed by PTAB
February 24, 2023
Law360Press Release
Seven Finnegan Attorneys Named to the 2021 IAM Strategy 300 List Seven Finnegan Attorneys Named to the 2021 IAM Strategy 300 List
September 20, 2021
Intellectual Asset ManagementRobert Kramer is employed by Finnegan Australia Pty Ltd, affiliated with Finnegan's Washington, DC office, and resident in Australia. Mr. Kramer is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
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