Derek Biehn is an associate in Weil’s Patent Litigation practice. He focuses on litigating patent disputes in U.S. federal courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Derek has experience in litigations involving a variety of industries and technologies, including electric vehicles, mobile electronic devices, network equipment, streaming platforms, building management systems, smoking cessation products, batteries, semiconductors, and wired and wireless communications standards. He has been involved in all aspects of patent litigation, from pre-filing investigation through trial.
Derek earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. While attending law school, Derek interned for the Honorable Thomas Bernard Pender at the U.S. International Trade Commission and for the Intellectual Property Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Before his legal career, Derek was a business methods patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Derek was also an electrical engineer at a major aerospace company where he worked on power and control systems for launch vehicles.