Matthew P. Frederick

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Matthew P. Frederick — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Frederick is an intellectual-property generalist at Reed Smith whose practice the firm describes as spanning patent and trademark prosecution, IP disputes, portfolio management, and IP licensing, rather than a single litigation technology niche. The one tracked litigation appearance is in mechanical/consumer-product patent territory: magnetic clip-on eyewear frames in Aspex Eyewear v. Altair Eyewear. His patent-prosecution docket (USPTO Reg. No. 60469) skews toward mechanical, industrial, and consumer/outdoor products — Aktiebolaget SKF, Bell Sports, Vista Outdoor, Bushnell, CamelBak, Fox Head — with some software (Informatica) and university work (Columbia), consistent with his B.S. in chemical engineering (polymer science) and pre-law product-development engineering background. Nothing in the available record shows pharma, life-sciences, or standards-based (e.g., Wi-Fi/SEP) litigation work.

Side preference. The tracked data show 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance. In Aspex Eyewear, Inc. et al. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc. he was on the appellate brief for defendant-appellee Altair, defending an operating eyewear distributor against a serial patent enforcer. That single data point is too thin to characterize him as a defense-only practitioner; his own firm bio states he both enforces IP rights and defends clients against infringement claims.

Firm context. He is a partner at Reed Smith LLP in Philadelphia (Three Logan Square). Reed Smith is the only firm I could confirm as his patent-litigation home; an Avvo listing also references K&L Gates in Pittsburgh, but I could not verify a prior association, and the entry appears inconsistent with the rest of his directory records. Some directories (Martindale) still list him as an associate, which is outdated relative to the firm site.

Notable cases and outcomes. Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc., No. 2012-1102 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 10, 2012) (nonprecedential, 484 F. App'x 565) — briefing for Altair alongside Carl H. Pierce, with Tracy Zurzolo Quinn arguing; the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed. This was the third Federal Circuit round in the long-running magnetic-eyewear dispute, and the Altair result later grounded collateral estoppel against Aspex in Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Zenni Optical LLC, a favorable line of authority for defendants. No jury verdicts, damages awards, or argued Federal Circuit appearances by Frederick himself surfaced in search.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB patent proceeding appearances were verifiable in the sources searched. His only found PTAB filing is a 2021 TTAB opposition appearance (Opp. No. 91266109) as counsel for TherapyNotes — trademark, not patent.

Bar / education. Admitted Pennsylvania (2006); registered to practice before the USPTO; admitted to the Federal Circuit and the E.D. and W.D. of Pennsylvania. J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law (2006, Certificate of Advanced Study in IP and Technology Law); B.S., Chemical Engineering, Penn State (2001).

Caveat: the tracked dataset contains only one case, so the technology and side-preference observations above rest primarily on the firm bio and prosecution-record data rather than a litigation track record.