Mr. Macleod is senior litigation counsel in Kutak Rock’s Minneapolis office, where he concentrates his practice on complex technical litigation, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret litigation. He has litigated complex patent and trade secret cases throughout the United States, including cases involving combustion engines, snowmobile design, medical devices, including interventional cardiology technologies and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), internet-based tracking systems, e-commerce, computer hardware and software technologies, and telecommunications systems. He has also litigated commercial cases involving breach of contract, non-disclosure / confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property licenses in federal and state courts.

Mr. MacLeod has extensive experience in all aspects of complex technical cases from initial investigation to strategy to complex discovery to trial. He has successfully argued summary judgment motions and patent claim constructions, and deposed numerous technical expert witnesses, inventors, engineers, and company executives.