Kirk J. Anderson

Kirk J. Anderson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Kirk J. Anderson (California Bar No. 289043) is a plaintiff-side patent litigator and founder of Budo Law P.C. in Arvada, Colorado, which he launched in August 2019 after a prior career in software development. His practice centers on patent infringement enforcement for inventors and patent owners, with a technology focus on software-implemented inventions, particularly GPS/navigation systems and connected-device functionality. The tracked docket is uniformly plaintiff-side (6 of 6 appearances, all as lead counsel), and every tracked matter was brought on behalf of Context Directions LLC, a patent-assertion entity (categorized by Stanford's NPE Litigation Database as an "acquired patents" asserter) suing operating companies — Garmin International, Avis Budget Group, Ean Holdings (Enterprise), and Fossil Group — over navigation-related patents (e.g., U.S. Patent No. 11,057,738). Searchable records show the same pattern in untracked matters: he has appeared for NPE clients such as Zeppelin Corporation (v. Verizon and v. Huawei Device USA), Netcom Global Solutions (v. Cisco), Sunset Licensing, Noblewood IP (v. Fox News Network), and Optima Direct. He does not appear to defend operating companies.

The most prominent tracked matter, Context Directions LLC v. Garmin International, Inc. (C.D. Cal., 2:22-cv-01360), was filed in February 2022 and resolved by voluntary dismissal with prejudice in May 2022 after Garmin answered and counterclaimed — consistent with a settlement, though no terms are public. Other matters (e.g., Optima Direct v. Pulse Electronics) also ended in voluntary dismissal. I found no published jury verdicts, reported Federal Circuit decisions, or confirmed appellate arguments attributable to this attorney; the firm's marketing claims Federal Circuit experience, but I could not verify it independently. I also found no evidence of a regular IPR/PGR practice before the PTAB.

Bar / education: Admitted in California (SBN 289043) and appears pro hac vice in Delaware, Texas, and other districts. His law school is not reliably sourced — an UpCounsel profile lists UVA Law, but the profile text attributes that degree to his partner, Mark Rabideau, so I have omitted it. Note that this attorney is distinct from two same-named lawyers: a Michigan-based Kirk J. Anderson (Powers Chapman, admitted 1990) and a corporate attorney Kirk Anderson at Paul Weiss; neither should be conflated with him.