Sarah R. Frazier

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Sarah R. Frazier — Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (Boston)

Specialty / focus. Frazier's practice is centered on intellectual property litigation and patent appeals, with a self-described emphasis on high-stakes trials before the Federal Circuit. The public docket record reflects a technology mix spanning consumer electronics and smartphone design patents (Apple v. Samsung), semiconductor/patent defense (AVM Technologies v. Intel), medical and wearable physiological-monitoring devices (Masimo v. Apple), and robotics/remote-telepresence systems (InTouch Technologies v. VGo Communications). She also handles trade secrets work and has appeared in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. Firm and law-school biographies describe her as an IP litigation generalist who also tries non-IP cases.

Side preference. The structured case list shows 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, and the verifiable record is consistent with a defense-leaning practice: she has represented operating companies — Apple, Intel, VGo, Harvard — in defensive postures against NPEs and competitors. Note, however, that this is not strictly a one-way practice: she was on Apple's team in Apple v. Samsung and in Apple's affirmative case against Masimo, where Apple was the patent assertor. There is no indication of representation of NPEs/PAEs; her patent plaintiff work appears to be for operating companies asserting their own portfolios.

Firm context. Frazier has been at WilmerHale since at least 2013–2014 and remains based in the firm's Boston office; the firm website and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2020) identify her as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, and she was elevated to partner in 2020. (The tracked record lists her as "Counsel," which predates or does not reflect that elevation.) She served as an assistant district attorney in the Middlesex District Attorney's Office in 2015–2016, and prior to law school worked as a management consultant to technology companies. She teaches as a lecturer at Harvard Law School and as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law.

Notable cases and outcomes. Verifiable results include: a jury verdict of no infringement on all eight asserted claims for Intel in a $2 billion suit brought by AVM Technologies (D. Del.); a $539 million jury award for Apple in the Apple/Samsung design-patent retrial (N.D. Cal.), later settled globally; judgment for Harvard in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard; and affirmance at the Federal Circuit in InTouch Technologies v. VGo Communications (Fed. Cir. 2014), where the court upheld non-infringement of all three asserted telepresence-robot patents (while reversing the invalidity findings). Firm materials also reference an arbitration dismissal for technology clients against an NPE. Caution: the structured list records only a single untitled defendant-side appearance, so the case names above derive from firm biographies, court filings and press coverage rather than from the tracked list; the "untitled" docket entry could not be matched to a specific matter.

PTAB / IPR. I found no reliable public record identifying her as lead or backup counsel of record in a specific IPR or PGR petition. Her name appears in correspondence in the Apple–Masimo disputes, which ran parallel to PTAB proceedings and a Section 337 ITC investigation (Inv. No. 337-TA-1276), and the Federal Circuit's affirmance of a PTAB decision in that matter was referenced in the related district court litigation — but her individual IPR role is not well sourced.

Bar / education. Admitted in Massachusetts (2011); U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2013) and First Circuit (2012); U.S. Supreme Court (2016). JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School (2011); MS, Criminology, University of Pennsylvania (2011); BA, Dartmouth College (2006).

Sourcing note: details above are drawn from WilmerHale's attorney profile, court dockets and filings (CourtListener/RECAP, TTAB), Federal Circuit opinions and law-firm case alerts, and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's 2020 "Up & Coming Lawyer" profile. Rankings/awards listings were not treated as substantive credentials.