Christa M. Anderson

Christa M. Anderson is a first-chair trial lawyer focusing on high-stakes intellectual property and complex business litigation for major technology companies. Her practice primarily involves defending clients in patent, copyright, and trade secret infringement cases. The technology areas in her matters are broad, ranging from software, including cloud computing and application performance management, to mobile technology and power consumption. Her client list has included Google, Adobe, Qualcomm, and Veeva Systems.

Consistent with the provided data showing her exclusively on the defendant side, Ms. Anderson's career has been defined by representing established technology corporations against infringement claims. One of her most notable representations was defending Google in the multi-billion dollar patent and copyright litigation brought by Oracle over the use of the Java programming language in the Android operating system. She has also secured favorable outcomes for clients such as Veeva Systems in a patent and trade secret dispute, and New Relic in a patent suit involving application performance management technology.

As of April 2025, Ms. Anderson is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Global Dispute Resolution group, based in their Washington, D.C. and San Francisco offices. This follows a period at Cooley, which she joined in October 2022 after a long career as a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, where she practiced from 1996 to 2022. In addition to her district court trial work, Ms. Anderson has experience with proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), having noted in 2017 an increase in her appellate work related to inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.

Ms. Anderson earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1994 and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Wellesley College in 1991. She is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts.