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Carissa Wilson

Associate Attorney

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Carissa Wilson is an associate in the IP Litigation team in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Carissa’s practice spans such areas as (1) patent litigation; (2) standard essential patent (SEP) and FRAND disputes; and (3) copyright and trademark litigation and counselling.

Carissa received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020, where she served as co-president of the Intellectual Property Law Society and comments editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum. She interned at the U.S. Department of Justice in the International Section of the Antitrust Division before joining Crowell & Moring LLP as a first-year intellectual property associate in Washington, DC.

Carissa’s approach to legal practice is interdisciplinary. She has performed innovative published research on the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act, passed in the U.S. in 2020. This research explored the intersection of intellectual property, administrative, and constitutional law. She has also published on the myriad legal consequences of novel technologies like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in relation to copyright, trademark, patent, and advertising law.

Carissa is sensitive to cross-border and comparative law issues. As an undergraduate student, Carissa completed coursework at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in Vienna, Austria on European Union law. She also attended the residential programme component of the Oxford Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law as a non-degree student in Fall 2020 while still practicing in the U.S.

Recent Articles by Carissa Wilson

Reexamining Three Preconceived Notions of SEPs as the 5G Patent Wars Ignite

5G—the next generation of telecommunications standards provided by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)—began implementation in 2019. It boasts significant technical benefits over prior generations, including higher speeds, greater bandwidth, lower latency, and larger coverage areas. Unlike previous 3GPP standards, 5G is not limited to cellular phones. Rather, 5G will support a plethora of technologies ranging from Enhanced Mobile Broadband to Massive Internet of Things. Accordingly, 5G will support a tremendous amount of economic activity: by 2026, 5G will have 3.5 billion subscribers and will account for 84% of mobile subscriptions in the United States. By 2035, 5G is expected to underly $13.1 trillion in global economic activity, accounting for 0.2% of the 2.7% projected annual global GDP growth.