Christopher Bolten

Intellectual Property & Technology

Patents and Innovation Strategies

Life Sciences & Medical Technology

Venture Capital & Emerging Technology

Innovation & Artificial Intelligence

Chris Bolten is a globally recognized IP attorney focusing on MedTech and technology fields. Chris represents 55+ MedTech companies and VCs in the medical device and digital health industries–including those utilizing artificial intelligence (AI)–across the United States, Europe, Israel, and Asia. He has handled over 100 IP diligences for premiere venture capital firms and for MedTech companies. Chris served as IP counsel for the company or investors in the #1 and #2 MedTech acquisitions of private companies in 2024, the #1 overall MedTech acquisitions in 2022 and 2024, and the largest MedTech acquisition in the history of Israel, amongst many others. Over 15+ years in MedTech, his clients have been acquired by strategics for multi-billions of dollars. Having litigated dozens of patent cases in federal court across the United States for MedTech companies and other household name companies, Chris builds litigation-ready IP to facilitate investment, acquisition, and enforcement.

Chris handles matters involving technologies like structural heart devices, stents, shunts, prosthetic heart valves, catheters, robotics, AI, neurovascular, peripheral and cardiovascular, connected health, wearable devices, spine, surgery, orthopedics, interventions, electrophysiology, ophthalmology, women’s health, dental, neuromodulation, ablation, wound healing, diagnostics, drug delivery, microfluidics, software, cloud computing, networks for AI, and internet systems. His experience includes IP portfolio strategy, patent prosecution, FTO opinions, and litigation.

Concentrations:

Patent portfolio management and strategic counseling

IP due diligence for venture capital firms and companies

MedTech—medical devices, digital health, artificial intelligence (AI)

Litigation and pre-litigation strategy

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, with honors, Michigan State University