John Cooper is the senior Member and founder of Farella Braun + Martell LLLP’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group where he has personally trained and mentored many leading trial lawyers. He regularly represents technology companies in complex patent actions and in cases addressing the confluence of intellectual property and antitrust issues. Mr. Cooper has successfully guided clients through massive trials and appeals, and many of his clients benefit from his success at obtaining summary judgment victories of non-infringement in patent actions, such as in Dolby v. Lucent, PostX v. Secure Data in Motion and Drexler v. Dolby.
Mr. Cooper was co-editor of “Anatomy of a Patent Case” published by the Federal Judicial Center to assist federal judges in patent cases. He has addressed the American Bar Association, the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Intellectual Property Commissioners of the European Economic Community and other legal organizations and published “Balancing Competitor Cooperation” in the Antitrust Law Journal. Mr. Cooper has served as Regent and is a long standing Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Cooper received his B.S. from Purdue University, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from the University of Colorado.
He is an Editor-in-Chief of the American College of Trial Lawyers/Bloomberg BNA treatise Anatomy of a Patent Case.