Matthew R. Modderman (Matt)

Matt Modderman represents clients in technical and high-stakes litigation, focusing on patent and trade secret disputes before U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Matt's litigation experience spans a variety of technologies across multiple industries, including vehicle suspension systems, medical devices, lithium-ion batteries, radio communications, corrosion-resistant metal coatings, and inventory management software.

Matt has experience with every stage of litigation. He has penned case dispositive motions before state and federal courts, worked closely with experts and fact witnesses to develop and distill testimony and expert opinions, and drafted claim construction, pretrial, Daubert, and discovery-related briefs. Matt has designed demonstrative presentations for trial, taken and defended numerous depositions, identified and developed key case strategies, and managed discovery from end-to-end.

Before attending law school, Matt worked in manufacturing engineering at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He later worked as a patent agent for a boutique patent prosecution firm, prosecuting patents in diverse fields of technology at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other patent offices around the world. After law school, Matt served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where he worked on civil cases against the United States government involving patent infringement, Fifth Amendment takings, bid protests, complex tax, and government contracts. As a law clerk, Matt assisted in preparing for, and attended, numerous oral hearings on patent infringement disputes, including multiple claim construction and summary judgment hearings.