Experience. Judgment. Passion. Results.
Not unlike aviation, ultimately one person is responsible for a successful outcome.
With his undergraduate degree in engineering, Fred has the technical background to quickly learn and understand a broad range of disciplines covering a multitude of technologies. As reflected in his over 5,000 incident-free hours as a commercially rated pilot operating complex, systems-based aircraft in all types of conditions, Fred has the ability to focus, solve problems as they arise, and remain calm in the face of any kind of challenge.
Fred pairs his technical expertise with the ability to make complex topics comprehensible to non-technical audiences – including judges and juries – a strength honed through over 2,000 national television and radio appearances as a subject-matter expert over the last fifteen years.
Equally important, with a down-to-earth style rare among intellectual property lawyers, Fred has consistently proved his ability to build fact-finders’ trust, narrow the issues, deliver focused and persuasive arguments, and win the day for his clients.
Frederick A. Tecce
A former federal prosecutor and registered patent attorney, Fred Tecce is an AV-rated, commercial litigation attorney.
Over the last forty years, in roles as varied as a large firm partner, Practice Group Leader and Office Managing Partner to the founder of a nationally recognized litigation boutique firm, Fred has dedicated himself almost exclusively to the representation of a broad spectrum of plaintiffs and claim holders, including intellectual property owners in a variety of industries and disciplines.
For individuals and entities ranging from publicly traded U.S. based businesses to behemoth multinational Pacific rim corporations, to a Ph.D. who prosecuted her own patents while raising three infant daughters as a widowed mother, Fred has obtained substantial verdicts, settlements, and judgments for his clients.
Education
• Undergraduate – Biomedical Engineering – University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University
admissions & Experience
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1986)
• State of New York (1987)
• State of Washington (2022)
• State of Texas (2022)
• Assistant United States Attorney – Criminal Division – United States Attorneys’ Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Special Assistant United States Attorney – United States Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.)
Teaching
• National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) National Trial Seminars – Professor of Trial Advocacy (2003-present)
• University of Pennsylvania School of Law – Adjunct Professor (2020 – Present)
· Former Professor of Trial Advocacy at Temple University LLM-Trial Program
· Former adjunct Professor at Temple University (Journalism & The Law and Copyrights)
· Former Professor at Camden County College teaching legal courses as part of a paralegal degree program
Community Involvement
• McGuire/Dix/Lakehurst, Honorary Commander to the 514th Air Mobility Wing of the United States Air Force Reserve (2016-2018) & the 621st Contingency Response Wing of the United States Air Force (2018-2019)
• Voorhees Animal Orphanage (No Kill Animal Shelter), Board of Directors (2015-2019)
• Board Member and President - Home Owners Association for 100+ home community (2000-2020)
Honors & Awards
The Best Lawyers in America©, Patent Law, 2013-Present
The Best Lawyers in America©, Patent Litigation, 2013-Present
The Best Lawyers in America©, Copyright Law, 2013-Present
The Best Lawyers in America©, Intellectual Property Litigation, 2012-Present
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Distinguished Service Award, Drug Enforcement Association, 1991, 1993
United States Attorney General’s Commendation, U.S. Department of Justice, 1989, 1990, 1995
United States Department of Transportation-Office of Inspector General Commendation
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2014-present, Thomson Reuters, publishers of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
Get to know me
For over 30 years, Mr. Tecce has enjoyed aviation as a commercially-rated, multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot with over 5,000 hours. During this time, he’s operated several pressurized complex aircraft including his current aircraft, a Cheyenne I.
Keeping with his travel hobbies, Fred owns and operates a recreational vehicle and has travelled as far south as Key Largo; as far west as the Grand Canyon and as far north as Camden, Maine, and Canada. When not spending time with his four sons, he enjoys fishing and crabbing on the Chesapeake’s Eastern Shore.