Alfred R. Fabricant is one of the nation’s most active and successful patent litigators and trial lawyers. He brings more than 35 years of first-chair trial experience to patent, copyright, trademark, and unfair competition matters in federal and state courts nationwide, including the most active patent venues in Texas, Delaware, California, Illinois, Florida, New York, and New Jersey.

Praised for his “outstanding skills of presentation and persuasion in the courtroom” by clients who “say they cannot imagine working with anyone better” (IAM 1000), Fred has led successful litigation efforts against imposing adversaries across a wide range of technologies. His jury trial wins in patent matters include victories against Amazon and McKesson. In Patexia’s January 2026 Patent Litigation Report, Fred was “ranked among the top 10 patent litigation attorneys out of 14,000+ evaluated nationwide.” His high-stakes IP disputes have involved technologies including automotive, semiconductor, payments, robotics, LED lighting and displays, smartphone handsets, smart speakers, medical devices, electronic ratings systems, copy protection and anti-piracy technology, NFC and radio frequency identification systems, memory and storage devices, software, and optical systems. He has also successfully tried to jury verdict a motion picture entertainment litigation against Scholastic Inc., and also led successful litigation against Christie’s auction house over the rare Nicholas II royal Faberge Imperial Easter Egg. He was also featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post for his winning trial against the State of New York for monetary compensation arising out of the wrongful imprisonment of Isidore Zimmerman, a man who spent 24 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

Fred has practiced before all major patent venues, including the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where he has appeared in more than 250 inter partes review proceedings. He has also argued many appeals before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals as well as the Second and Fourth Circuits.

A pioneer in litigation financing, Fred has handled a large number of cases financed in whole or in part by litigation funders and is frequently recommended to claimants by litigation funders for lead counsel appointments in litigation and to defend claimants in IPR and ex parte re-examination proceedings. He has also represented litigation funds as outside diligence counsel.

Outside the litigation context, Fred routinely negotiates and drafts patent, trademark, and copyright license agreements; joint venture and litigation funding agreements; and other contracts. He has particular experience providing IP due diligence, freedom to operate analyses, and advice on IP portfolio management and monetization, a topic on which he has lectured extensively for more than a decade. He advises clients on portfolio acquisitions and development, licensing and enforcement strategies, and litigation financing options.