Alex Middleton is special counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's New York office.
Alex works with high-technology companies handling their complex patent disputes. He has litigated patent cases in nearly every significant patent jurisdiction, including the International Trade Commission, the District of Delaware, the Northern District of California, the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of companies in a variety of technical fields, including cellular and wireless communications, video coding, networking, computer systems and software, network architecture and security, mobile payment systems, imaging systems, and GPS technology. Alex has worked on all phased of patent litigation, from identification of potential targets of patent litigation to handling various aspects of trial preparation.
Prior to law school, Alex worked on the building of the ATLAS detector for the CERN Large Hadron Collider.