Overview
Andy’s practice encompasses all aspects of patent law, with a focus on litigation and USPTO post-grant review proceedings. He has successfully argued before the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trials and Appeal Board (PTAB), and before federal district courts at Markman and summary judgment hearings.
A registered patent attorney and former circuit designer, Andy also has prosecuted patents on technologies including electronic design automation (EDA), telecommunications, network infrastructure, media CODECs, and control systems. He also has extensive experience working with foreign counsel on global patent litigation strategies, and participated in patent trials in both Germany and the U.K.
Andy joined Klarquist in 2011 as a lateral associate and became partner in 2017.
Professional Experience
Carlson Caspers Vandenburgh & Lindquist
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Associate, 2006 – 2011
United States District Court, District of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Extern to Judge James M. Rosenbaum, 2005
LSI Logic Corporation
Bloomington, Minnesota
ASIC Design Engineer, 2000 – 2004
Micron Technologies
Boise, Idaho
Process Engineer Co-op, 1997
Professional Activities
- Federal Circuit Bar Association, Vice Chair of the PTO Committee, 2018
- Chair, Oregon Patent Law Association Salishan Patent Law Conference, 2016 and 2014
- Former President, Oregon Patent Law Association
- Officer, Oregon Patent Law Association
- Managing Editor, University of Minnesota Law School Law Review, 2007
Honors & Awards
- 2018 – 2021 IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
Presentations & Publications
- Increasing Diversity in Innovation, Lewis & Clark Law School, April 1, 2022
- Patent Law Year in Review, Oregon State Bar IP Section, February 18, 2022
- Patent Law Review, Intellectual Property Review – Updates and Changes from 2018, Oregon State Bar CLE, February 2019
- “Using a Phillips Construction in all PTAB Trials: The Impact on District Court Patent Actions and PTAB Proceedings,” 18 Chi. -Kent J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2019) (coauthor)
- “From Chevron to Cuozzo: Round II: A Closer Look at Administrative Law Issues in PTO Proceedings,” Federal Circuit Bar Association panel discussion and Webinar, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2017
- “From Chevron to Cuozzo: Practical Impacts of Administrative Law on PTO Proceedings,” Federal Circuit Bar Association panel discussion and Webinar, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2016
- Patent Defenses & Patent Law Forecast, Nike Campus, Beaverton, OR, April 1, 2016 (co-presented with Chris Carraway)
- Advanced Tips For U.S. Patent Prosecution and Litigation, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA, March 29, 2016 (co-presented with John Vandenberg)
- Creative and Strategic Claim Drafting, Oregon State Bar, Intellectual Property Section, January 2016
- Discovery in U.S. Patent Litigation, presented as part of Seminar on Patent Discovery Proceedings, Munich, Germany, May 19, 2015
- Case Law and Claim Drafting: Impact of Recent Court Decisions, Oregon State Bar, Intellectual Property Section, July 2012
- Throwing Out the (Electronic) Trash: True Deletion Would Soothe E-Discovery Woes, 7 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 777 (2006)
Amici Briefs
- Brief of Amicus Curiae T-Mobile USA, Inc., In Support of Defendants – Cross-Appellants Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, On the Issue of Estoppel Under Section 315(E), June 2020 (Issue: IPR Estoppel)
- Brief of Amici Curiae SAP America, Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., Nautilus, Inc., Electronic Transactions Association, Financial Services Roundtable, and Xilinx, Inc. in Support of Respondents, Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, et al, October 25, 2017
- Brief of Amicus Curiae, Microsoft Corporation on Rehearing En Banc Supporting Neither Party, in Lighting Ballast v. Philips Electronics, June 2013
