Robert has over 20 years’ experience litigating patent matters in the district courts, the ITC, and the USPTO. He also provides strategic counseling on patent issues, with a focus on planning successful, business-oriented outcomes. He was most recently a member of the winning trial team in In re Certain Thermoplastic-Encapsulated Electric Motors II (337-TA-1073) and lead counsel for another team that successfully protected a client’s process for fermenting food-grade MSG. He has also appeared in over 80 inter partes review proceedings at the USPTO’s Patent Trial & Appeal Board.

A skilled trial attorney, he litigates cases involving such diverse technologies as embedded systems, power electronics, automotive parts, mobile phones, and robotics. Mr. Mattson regularly advises clients on the interrelationship between district-court, ITC, and PTAB litigation.

Before joining Kramer Alberti, Mr. Mattson founded his own law firm, which specialized in patent litigation, opinions, and strategic counseling. He also worked in the USPTO as a patent examiner in the fields of speech-signal processing and artificial intelligence, and afterwards, was an equity partner in a large intellectual-property boutique where he was head of the litigation practice group for eight years and served on the management and compensation committees.

Mr. Mattson has spoken at numerous industry events to provide his insights on ITC and district-court litigation strategies. He was formerly an adjunct professor for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich where he lectured on various subjects, including willful infringement, induced infringement, and opinions of counsel. Additionally, he has represented indigent defendants pro bono in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in coordination with the Federal Public Defender Office.