FREDERICK HADIDI
COUNSEL
hadidi@turnerboyd.com
650.241.8181
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Cornell University, SEE
Stanford Law School, JD
Bits of conversational Italian, Spanish, and Cantonese
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State Bar of California
US Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits
US Supreme Court
US Patent and Trademark Office
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“Fewer Wires, More Power, Big Problems?” ABA Natural Resources & Environment, Special issues on the future of the energy grid, Winter 2023, pp. 41-44.
For about five years (2016-2021), Frederick wrote monthly patent case summaries for the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Frederick Hadidi began his Silicon Valley legal career in the early 1990s at Skadden and two other big firms, where he worked on a wide range of patent and trade secret disputes, lawsuits, and deals.
About 10 years after graduating from Stanford Law School, Frederick co-founded the IP boutique that would later become Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker LLP. There, he developed a niche practice in strategic IP advice and pre-litigation patent disputes, which included freedom to operate opinions, design-around analyses, and active negotiations with patent owners who had accused his clients of infringement. In all the pre-litigation patent disputes Frederick handled while at CHSB, no client of his was sued or paid a single dollar in license fees.
This success was driven in part by his willingness to do whatever it takes to understand relevant technology—including its history—and communicate persuasively with engineers, businesspeople, and other lawyers.
Over the past three decades, his clients have mostly been billion-plus dollar public technology companies but have ranged from a single-founder materials startup to a Fortune 100 electronics giant.
After his former partners at Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker retired at the end of 2022, Frederick had a solo practice focused on climate tech startups, including about two dozen small companies associated with Third Derivative and the fellowship programs at Activate and Breakthrough Energy.