Caroline Elyse Burks

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Let me verify the tracked case and check for PTAB/IPR experience.

Let me verify her prior firm (the Parus case predates her Fredrikson move) and check for IPR appearances.

Caroline Elyse Burks — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Burks is an intellectual property litigator whose practice centers on patent disputes involving software, hardware, standard essential patents, and biomedical devices, with additional work in cybersecurity and data privacy matters. Her ITC experience includes teams enforcing video codec and cellular patents. Her one tracked case — Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation — involved voice-browsing/voice-assistant software patents (Cortana/Bing functionality) asserted by an NPE, consistent with her stated focus on representing patent holders ranging from solo inventors to multinationals.

Side preference. She works almost exclusively on the plaintiff/patent-holder side. All tracked appearances (1 of 1) are as plaintiff's attorney of record, and her verified experience includes favorable settlements for patent holders, ITC representation as petitioner-side counsel, and assisting a non-practicing entity enforce software patent rights against a multinational.

Firm context. Burks is a senior associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group of Fredrikson's Des Moines, Iowa office, joining the firm in April 2026. Her tracked Parus representation (2021–2022) predates that move; the specific firm she was with at the time is not confirmed by the sources reviewed, though she interned with Judge Alan Albright (W.D. Tex.) in 2020 and at a patent litigation firm during law school. Before that, she interned at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Dallas.

Notable cases / outcomes. In Parus Holdings v. Microsoft, she appeared for plaintiff Parus before Judge Albright in W.D. Texas (later transferred to W.D. Washington), with the case terminating by settlement in November 2022. Her verified results also include favorable settlements for patent holders in voice-to-text/call-routing and biometric/device-security litigation and in financial-research-platform suits, plus participation in the State of Texas v. Meta biometric privacy enforcement.

PTAB/IPR experience. No verified IPR/PGR appearances were found for Burks. Microsoft did file inter partes reviews against the Parus patents (IPR2022-00137; IPR2022-00804), but her involvement in those proceedings is unconfirmed.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas (2021) and Iowa (2023), with district-court admissions in Texas, Michigan, and Iowa; J.D., University of Texas School of Law (2021); B.S., Wayne State University (2017, cum laude).