Robins Kaplan Partners Named to 2023 IAM Strategy 300 List of Leading IP Strategists

Robins Kaplan LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher Larus, Aaron Fahrenkrog, and Logan Drew have been named to the 2023 IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists list. The list identifies individuals who are leading the way in the development and implementation of strategies that maximize the value of intellectual property portfolios.

Christopher Larus is the chair of the firm’s National IP and Technology Litigation Group. For more than 25 years, he has helped leading technology companies protect and monetize their intellectual property. He is a certified Civil Trial Specialist, and tries complex patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright, and licensing dispute cases in courts throughout the United States.  He also represents clients in both national and international arbitration. He has extensive experience planning and implementing licensing campaigns involving a broad range of intellectual property assets and technologies. This is the seventh consecutive year that Larus has been named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.

Aaron Fahrenkrog employs strategic patent enforcement to help innovative patent owners generate value from their portfolios. He has helped clients in the computing and semiconductor industries recover over $600 million in royalties before trial. He and his team also have helped patent owners succeed in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board—over 90% of IPR petitions they have defended have resulted in non-institution or settlement prior to institution. He and his team drive patent licensing results through their deep understanding of computing technologies, market economics in the computing industry, licensing negotiation strategies, and litigation strategies in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions.

Logan Drew represents both plaintiffs and defendants, ranging from individual inventors to large players in the semiconductor and computing industries, handling complex patent infringement matters, technology licensing, and contractual disputes relating to clients’ critical IP assets.  Through various litigation matters and matters before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, he has diverse experience in the semiconductor and computing technology spaces, including: semiconductor fabrication techniques and process control; integrated circuit design/architecture, layout, and power and thermal management; high-speed interfaces; image and graphics processing; graphical user interface (GUI); mobile device technology; and consumer electronics.