Edwin E. Voigt II

Edwin E. Voigt II is a shareholder at Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A., an intellectual property boutique in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. His listed practice areas span patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and IP licensing and litigation, and the publicly available record shows a practice weighted toward prosecution and counseling rather than courtroom litigation. Consistent with that, his only tracked district court appearance is as local counsel, not lead trial counsel, and searchable USPTO records show him prosecuting patent and trademark matters across a broad mix of technologies — mechanical and consumer products, food processing (e.g., egg-yolk extraction), medical device work, taggant/packaging technology — and handling TTAB appeals and oppositions in food, beverage, and craft-beer marks.

Side preference. On the single tracked matter he appears on the plaintiff side (1 plaintiff, 0 defendant), for Intellectual Ventures II LLC — i.e., a non-practicing entity/patent aggregator. That is a thin sample and should not be read as a settled NPE-side practice; the bulk of his verifiable IP work (prosecution, TTAB) is neutral as to litigation side.

Notable matter. Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. U.S. Bancorp et al., No. 0:13-cv-02071-ADM (D. Minn., filed July 31, 2013), in which he and Richard A. Arrett of his firm served as Minnesota local counsel for IV II alongside lead counsel Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP. The suit asserted a portfolio of networking/computer-security patents (including the ’084 and ’574 patents) against U.S. Bancorp/US Bank; the court granted the defendants' motion to stay pending inter partes review on August 7, 2014, and the docket closed that same month. No verdict, settlement amount, or Federal Circuit ruling attributable to Voigt was located.

PTAB / IPR. I found no evidence that Voigt personally appeared in IPR, PGR, or CBM proceedings. The IPRs arising out of the IV II banking litigation (e.g., IPR2014-00682, -00724, -00801) were handled by Knobbe Martens and IV in-house counsel for the patent owner, and by Jones Day/Senniger/Kutak Rock for the petitioners.

Bar / education. Admitted in Minnesota in 1984 and registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 36042); B.A., St. Olaf College (1980); J.D., Hamline University School of Law (1984). Martindale lists him as a shareholder at Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus; no prior firm history relevant to patent litigation was reliably sourced.