Overview

Julien Crockett is an associate in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Bay Area office. His practice focuses on litigation and counseling in the fields of patent, trade secret and copyright. He represents clients on matters implicating a range of technologies including computer software, consumer electronics and agricultural equipment. Julien’s pro bono work has included an assortment of IP matters, as well as matters focused on immigration.

More

Thought Leadership

Speaking Engagements

Interview, “How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2024

Interview, “The City of the Future: A Conversation with Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2024

Interview, “The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2024

Interview, “Everything Is Embedded in What Came Before: A Conversation with Robert M. Sapolsky,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2023

Interview, “In Praise of Failure and Storytelling: A Conversation with Costica Bradatan,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2023 (also available in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish)

Interview, “Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2023

Interview, “Data in the Hands of Profiteers: A Conversation with Mary F. E. Ebeling,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2022

Interview, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2022

Moderator, "Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: 'What Comes After CRISPR?'," Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2021

Publications

“Capricious Patent Boundaries: The "Reliberalization" of Post-Issuance Patent Claim Amendments,” Berkeley Technology Law Journal, January 2022

“The Fourth Wave of Technology Standardization: What 5G's Heterogenous Nature Means for the Future of Technology Governance,” Geo. L. Tech. Rev., September 2021

“Morality: An Important Consideration at the Patent Office,” 108 California Law Review, February 2020

“A Chinese Silicon Valley? Not So Fast,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2019

“The Digital Revolution: Digital Edition,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2017 (co-editor)

“Can a Machine be Alive?” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2017

“Looking for Meaning: Alan Lightman Reimagines his Southern Home,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2015

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2021California

Courts

  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Languages

  • English
  • French

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, School of LawJ.D.2020

    Law and Technology Certificate

    California Law Review

    Berkeley Journal of International Law

    Board Member, Patent Law Society

    Graduate Student Researcher, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professor of Law Robert Merges

  • University of California, Los AngelesB.A., English (World Literature & French Concentration)2014

    Research Assistant, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment (CSTB University de Paris-Est, Paris, France)

    Research Assistant, Professor Robert Watson