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gmgarcia@patentlaw.us Technical Experience
- System and design engineering in large-scale communication systems
- Design engineer in digital, analog, and high-power radar hardware design
- Design engineer in digital and analog simulation
Bar & Court Admissions
- California Bar
- Eastern District of Texas
- Northern District of California
- Central District of California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School
- M.S.E.E., Stanford University
- B.S.E.E., C.S.U. Northridge
Overview
Mr. Garcia represents high-technology companies in a variety of intellectual property matters, including litigation, transactions, prosecution, and counseling involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Practice Areas
Mr. Lupe Garcia focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation.
His litigation experience includes matters relating to electrical, software, and mechanical technology, as well as biosciences.
He has prosecuted patents in the areas of electrical and computer engineering, with an emphasis in communication systems, signal processing, electronics, semiconductor physics, cryptography, and computer architecture.
Mr. Garcia’s practice also includes counseling clients on intellectual property portfolio development that includes counseling on patent, trade secret, trademark, and copyright issues. He also counsels clients on non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom-to-operate issues.
Representative Legal Experience
Mr. Garcia has been a leader on litigation teams addressing high-stakes intellectual property issues including patent and trade secret issues. He has represented high-technology companies in the fields of memory design, semiconductor processing, electronic design automation, video game distribution, and networking.
He has extensive experience portfolio development. He has assessed a large number intellectual property portfolios including many thousands of patents. The evaluation of IP portfolios has involved conducting infringement and validity analyses of highly technical patents as well as working closely with subject matter experts. He has also been involved in the business aspects of portfolio development including analyzing competitor’s portfolios, negotiating terms for acquisition, and drafting licensing. He has also taken knowledge and expertise gained through the portfolio acquisition process into the litigation process to further assist clients’ portfolio development.
He assists technology companies in their continuous management, assessment, and prosecution of intellectual property strategies.
