Carson Anderson is a trial lawyer representing clients in intellectual property and commercial disputes, primarily in the life sciences space. His representations focus on patent, trade secret, licensing, and business torts in federal and state courts, in addition to appellate courts, arbitration panels, and the U.S. Patent Office.
A lifelong engineer educated in molecular genetics and chemistry, Carson understands his client's technologies on a fundamental level, but emphasizes the need to make science simple and fun for judges and juries. To this end, Carson believes that complicated issues should be presented through thematic storytelling and emphasizes the need for fact-finders to connect with his clients' motivations on a human and emotional level.
Carson's trial advocacy extends to pro-bono initiatives, with an emphasis on the rights of incarcerated persons. Recently, Carson represented twenty sexual assault survivors who shared in the well-publicized $116 million dollar settlement from the Federal Government based on horrific abuses at FCI Dublin. Carson is also trial counsel for the class action lawsuit stemming from the same systemic staff sexual abuse, retaliation, and medical neglect at FCI Dublin, successfully obtaining a historic preliminary injunction, resulting in the appointment of a special master to oversee court-ordered changes at the prison. As another example, as trial counsel Carson represented an incarcerated diabetic individual in a federal jury trial in the Northern District of California after he was deprived of insulin and forced to starve for nearly a month.
Experience
- Life sciences companies, including Danaher, Leica Microsystems, Foundation Medicine, Complete Genomics, Alexion, Bayer, Monsanto, Seminis, and Prothena in patent and commercial litigations involving next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, cell-free DNA and circulating tumor DNA diagnostics, white-light laser confocal microscopes, monoclonal antibody development and manufacturing, crop genetics, etc.
- Medical device companies, including Boston Scientific and Hologic in patent and trade secret litigations and inter partes review proceedings involving spinal cord stimulation, endoscopy, and endometrial ablation technologies.
- Hardware, software, and web-based services companies, including Google, Adobe, Charter Communications, and Cadence Design Systems in patent, trade secret, and commercial litigations involving cable networks, electronic signatures, two-factor authentication, e-commerce platforms, MPEG image and video encoding/decoding, field programmable gate arrays, etc.
Perspectives
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 2017
- B.A., Biological Sciences, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2013, summa cum laude
Admissions
- California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana