Krista S. Schwartz
Partner

Contact

(T) +1.312.269.4098
(F) +1.312.782.8585

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D. with high honors 1996; Order of the Coif; Chicago-Kent Law Review); Northwestern University (M.S. in Computer Science 1991); University of Illinois (B.S. in Computer Engineering 1989)

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois; U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District of Texas, and Northern District of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Krista Schwartz prepares and tries high-tech intellectual property cases, focusing on patent and copyright litigation. Her substantial trial experience and technical skill allow her to effectively manage complicated technical cases with an eye towards summary judgment and trial.

Krista has significant trial experience in electronics-related matters. She recently represented The MathWorks, Inc. in a copyright action arising from a competitor's release of a clone of the client's successful MATLAB software product. Krista handled the case from the filing of the complaint through trial. She succeeded in getting the competitor's counterclaims dismissed prior to trial and the jury found in favor of MathWorks at trial, awarding all requested damages.

Krista has litigated cases involving a wide range of technologies, including image manipulation software; MPEG and JPEG compression; medical imaging; internet and World Wide Web systems and protocols; cellular telephony; mathematical computation, analysis, and visualization software; object-oriented software; computer networking; semiconductor circuitry, fabrication, and packaging; high-definition televisions; video-on-demand systems; and medical devices.

Prior to attending law school, Krista worked for AT&T Bell Labs for seven years in a variety of areas, including desktop video conferencing, computer software, computer networks, operating systems, and computer architecture. Krista is a named inventor on more than 20 AT&T-NCR U.S. patents related to her work with desktop video conferencing.


Krista Schwartz