Richard S. Florsheim

Richard Florsheim is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. For the past 20 years, Mr. Florsheim's practice has been devoted exclusively to the litigation and alternative dispute resolution of patent infringement and other intellectual property disputes. His experience includes working on cases involving a wide variety of technologies, including electronics, medical devices, optics and optical communications, wireless communications, industrial controls, and semiconductors.

Since 1974, Mr. Florsheim has devoted his professional career to the litigation of intellectual property cases and other complex civil litigation. He has tried over two dozen cases before judges and juries. Mr. Florsheim has served as lead counsel in over 60 patent infringement cases involving products and services covering a broad range of technologies in various district courts, in the Court of Federal Claims and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. He has also argued over a dozen appeals from district court decisions in patent infringement litigations before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He has substantial experience representing clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including the negotiation of litigation settlements and the conduct of arbitration proceedings, mediations and summary jury trials.

Good to know

Areas of Practice 1) China, 2) IP Litigation, 3) Patent Litigation, 4) Trade Secret Noncompete Litigation, 5) Trademark and 6) Copyright & Advertising Litigation
Law School Marquette University Law School (J.D.)
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1971)
Bar Member / Association State Bar Federal Circuit Bar Association
Most recent firm Foley & Lardner LLP
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