Adam Shartzer

Adam Shartzer is a principal at Fish & Richardson in Washington, D.C., where he represents clients in high-stakes patent litigation before federal district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. His work spans technologies including 5G and other wireless communications protocols, set-top boxes, televisions, processors, memory, software, and medical devices. He also advises clients on post-grant review and reexamination strategy before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Adam earned a J.D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School in 2008 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science, from the University of Virginia in 2003. He served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2010 to 2011 after previously serving as a judicial intern to Judge Richard Linn.

Adam has experience with trial and post-grant proceedings, appellate briefing and arguments, discovery, claim construction, and litigation strategy. He has managed or assisted with more than 70 inter partes review and ex parte reexamination matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His representative matters include work for Micron, Microsoft, Uber, Bose, LG Electronics, Arista Networks, and other technology companies in district court, ITC, Federal Circuit, and PTAB proceedings.

Adam Shartzer is a Chambers-rated litigator whose recognitions include Law360’s 2020 Rising Star in Intellectual Property, the National Law Journal’s 2019 D.C. Rising Stars list, and recognition in the IAM 1000. He has served on the Advisory Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and serves as Fish’s national recruiting principal for Federal Circuit clerks. His pro bono work includes representing veterans seeking disability benefits, and he was named to the 2025 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll.

Law Office Affiliations

• Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C.
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, State Bar of Georgia
• Administrator, Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court
• Member, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Executive Managing Editor, American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• Georgia

Education

• George Washington University Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Virginia
  Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science

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