Randy J. Pritzker

Overview

Randy Pritzker is one of the most experienced and accomplished patent attorneys in the US with over 30 years of experience at Wolf Greenfield. He provides to clients, ranging from industry-leading start-up and multinational companies to top-tier academic institutions, the full spectrum of high-quality intellectual property legal services, including patent protection, licensing, risk avoidance counseling, validity challenges, and patent litigation.

Clients rely on Randy as a trusted advisor because of his significant and broad IP legal experience and business acumen, the strong teams he assembles, and his focus on client service and obtaining results. Randy strategically advises clients to achieve business goals cost-effectively and proactively through patent protection and portfolio management, IP diligence to support fundraising, freedom-to-operate, and invalidity opinions. He successfully counsels companies on IP strategies to build barriers to entry for competitors and achieve outcomes such as financing, sales, and exits.

Randy also has extensive experience successfully managing complex patent litigation, both in district court and at the International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as invalidity challenges, including inter partes reviews (IPRs) and reexaminations. He has deep experience successfully defending companies targeted by patent suits from non-practicing entities and handling bet-the-company competitor suits, using post-grant validity challenges such as reexamination and IPR when helpful.

Randy interfaces with clients, learns their business and their needs, and delivers results cost-effectively. Randy prides himself on providing proactive, responsive, quality counsel at reasonable fees, always considering client goals and promoting optimal IP strategies for achieving them. Randy always makes himself available to his clients. Nothing short of a “win” is acceptable to Randy. He employs teams of people with relevant technical and legal experience to optimally handle each and every client and matter, effectively utilizing the incredibly strong practitioners across all practices available at Wolf Greenfield.

Randy has deep experience in industries including electronics, optics, semiconductors, software (including artificial intelligence for various applications), quantum computing and communication, healthcare (including imaging), medical devices, financial services, and consumer products.

Among Randy’s many high-profile clients are major consumer products companies, electronics and software companies, defense contractors, venture capitalists and investment banks, academic institutions, and start-up companies. Exemplary clients that look to Randy for counsel include Sony Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Lightmatter, Delta Electronics, Nikon, MIT, Harvard University, Quantum-Si, Flatiron Health, Qunnect, and Maybell Quantum.

Randy is regularly praised by the clients he represents for his proactive service, availability, reasonable fees, the excellent teams he brings in, and for the results he achieves, both in the patent portfolios he builds and in patent litigation.

Randy is regularly ranked among the most active (top 1%) and best patent attorneys in the country by LexDana, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers.

For 20 years, Randy chaired Wolf Greenfield’s Electrical & Computer Technologies (ECT) Practice. During this time the practice grew into one of the largest, deepest, and most talented ECT practices in the US. Randy has since returned to active full-time practice of law for clients.

Randy is also actively involved in Boston’s venture capital community, and he travels both within the US and to Japan and Korea regularly to visit with his valued domestic, Japanese, and Korean clients.

Experience

• Provided strategic advice and oversaw the development of large patent portfolios of electronics and software companies, providing commercial value and entry barriers to competitors.
• Provided strategic counseling and oversaw major patent litigations for large multinational companies, on both the prosecution and defense sides, achieving wins cost-effectively through judgment and settlement.
• Strategically counseled numerous early-stage companies on IP strategies that protect core technology and reduce infringement risk, positioning them to raise capital and achieve desired exit strategies.
• Advised companies and oversaw successful post-grant challenges to patents, including reexaminations and inter partes review in and outside litigation.
• Advised major consumer products companies on product clearance, third-party contested matters, and patent protection schemes, including in Asia.
• Developed a cost-effective, widely used IP due diligence process for counseling investors and acquirers on evaluating the IP positions of companies prior to investment or acquisition.

Activities

• American Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Licensing Executives Society
• Massachusetts Bar Association

Recognition

• Repeatedly named to The Best Lawyers in America®
• Repeatedly recognized in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
• Repeatedly named to the list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers in the field of intellectual property law 
• Ranked among the top 1% of most active high-tech patent prosecutors—out of 26,000+ patent attorneys and agents—in LexDana’s Patent Intelligence Rankings