Kristen Lovin

Kristen Lovin represents clients in high-stakes litigation encompassing a broad range of intellectual property, data privacy, and licensing disputes. She leverages her computer science and electrical engineering background and over a decade of litigation experience to develop winning liability strategies that are rooted in a deep understanding of her clients’ technology and business. She has litigated cases in California, Delaware, Texas, and the ITC, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Kristen has been an active member of several Keker trial teams, including representing Ivantis Inc., the maker of a revolutionary eye stent designed to treat glaucoma, in a case brought by competitor Glaukos Corporation alleging infringement of two of Glaukos’ patents. She served on a team defending Varian Medical Systems, a world leader in radiotherapy medical devices for the treatment of cancer, in the District of Delaware against patent-infringement claims brought by Best Medical International. She has also represented Google against an eight-patent case related to voice detection and microphone arrays against Jawbone, and is defending Google in a five-patent case filed by Wildseed Mobile, which accuses pixel phones, YouTube, Google search and ad targeting. Kristen is also defending Netflix, Inc. in multiple patent suits brought by Broadcom, which involve complex video technologies such as entropy encoding, adaptive streaming, and distributed software deployment. Kristen also represents X in a licensing and patent dispute against Adeia.

Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Kristen served as a law clerk to Judge Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Edward Davila of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and as the patent law clerk to Judge Davila, Judge Lucy Koh, and Judge Beth Freeman. Kristen earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, her master’s in computer science from Harvard University, and her A.B. cum laude in electrical and computer engineering from Harvard. 

Before law school, Kristen worked for several years in the Windows Division at Microsoft, where she led a team of development and test engineers to enhance application compatibility tools.