Julien Jean-George Crockett
Overview
Experience
Representative Matters
Representing a global manufacturer of digital two-way radio technology in a patent infringement lawsuit against multi-billion dollar competitor in connection with global dispute over critical wireless technologies.
Represented videogame maker in a lawsuit alleging that they committed copyright infringement by accurately depicting tattoos inked by the plaintiff on certain NBA players in their video game. After a week-long jury trial, the jury determined that plaintiff had impliedly licensed the NBA player the right to show the tattoos as part of his likeness and to allow others to depict him, and that the NBA player had in turn licensed that right to the video game maker, and awarded plaintiff no damages. The victory was highlighted in The American Lawyer.
Represented aerospace and defense contractor in a patent, copyright and state law lawsuit concerning aerospace test instruments, including successfully invalidating all asserted patent claims before the Patent and Trademark Office and securing dismissal of the copyright claim as aerospace and defense contractor’s copying for compatibility with pre-compiled computer programs was a fair use. The victory was highlighted in The American Lawyer.
Represented a global manufacturer of agricultural and industrial equipment as a plaintiff in a patent infringement litigation against two competitor-defendants. After a two-week jury trial, the jury determined that defendants infringed four patent claims, rejected all six of the defendants’ challenges to the patents’ validity and awarded client $16.3 million in damages for the first 2.5 years of the defendants’ infringing sales.
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial Extern, Patent Pilot ProgramHonorable Andrew J. GuilfordUnited States District Court for the Central District of California
Prior Experience
Editor, Science and Law Section, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
Lab Manager, UCLA, Life Sciences Department
More
Thought Leadership
Speaking Engagements
Interview, “Is There Anything ‘Artificial’ About Artificial Intelligence?” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2025
Interview, “Everything You Think Is Physical: A Conversation with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2025
Speaker, “LA Review of Books Editor’s Salon: A Conversation with Julien Crockett and Ted Chiang,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2025
Interview, “Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem: A Conversation with Ted Chiang,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2025
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, Turkish and Vietnamese)
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
“The Rules We Live By: Year in Review,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2025
“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 Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- 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