Justin M. Sobaje
Special Counsel
Justin Sobaje is special counsel and an intellectual property lawyer at 麻豆传媒, where he counsels clients regarding all aspects of intellectual property, including patent litigation, patent prosecution, trademarks, and trade secrets. He manages patent portfolios for companies that cover a wide range of electronic and mechanical technologies, including computer hardware and software, wireless communications, image sensors, and medical devices. Justin is a member of the firm鈥檚 Electronics and IP Litigation Practices.
He is a seasoned patent litigator with experience litigating in the most popular district court patent venues as well as before the International Trade Commission. He has developed tactics for the efficient resolution of cases and is particularly known for his skills in defending against patent trolls. He is able to provide a bridge between technical and legal concepts and has handled cases involving advanced technologies such as computer and storage system architectures, communication networks, encryption methods, payment systems, video transmission and recording devices, e-commerce websites, graphics processors, and semiconductor testing equipment.
With respect to patent prosecution, Justin interacts with clients to craft strategies for patent portfolios, including utility and design patent coverage, as well as patent coverage for foreign countries. He has years of experience in preparing patent applications and in communicating with the Patent Office to seek allowance. He has additional experience in the preparation of re-examination and inter partes review requests, and in the identification and presentation of prior art as a means of forestalling litigation or for use as a bargaining chip in settlement and licensing negotiations.
Prior to joining 麻豆传媒, Justin worked at both NEC and Intel. At NEC, he worked with a team to design a compiler for a transport triggered processor. At Intel, he was a member of the operating systems group, where he developed and coded algorithms. He is the sole named inventor on two U.S. patents.
Presentations and Publications
- 鈥淭he Evolving Standard for Pleading Direct Patent Infringement,鈥 IP Frontline, Sep. 2016
- 鈥淗as the Machine-or-Transformation Test Returned to Prominence in Patent Cases?鈥 Cyberspace Lawyer, Vol. 20, No. 2, Mar. 2015
- 鈥淚s the 鈥楥ommil鈥 Defense Underutilized in Patent Cases?鈥 Law.com, Nov. 2014
- 鈥淧ermanent Injunctions in Patent Cases: Back in Style?鈥 IP Litigator, Vol. 20, No. 5, Oct. 2014
- 鈥淎re Computer-Implemented Inventions Patent Eligible?鈥 Cyberspace Lawyer, Vol. 19, No. 3, Apr. 2014
- 鈥淣etwork Processors and Methods Allowing for Prefetching Instructions Based On a Packet Type of a Packet,鈥 U.S. Patent No. 8,462,789, Jun. 2013
- 鈥淣etwork Processors and Pipeline Optimization Methods,鈥 U.S. Patent No. 8,179,896, May 2012
- 鈥淲hat Territory is Surrendered?鈥 Biotechnology Law Report, Vol. 21, No. 6, Dec. 2002
- 鈥淪ystem Level Power Optimization for Wireless Multimedia Communication,鈥 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Ch. 4, 2002
- 鈥淥ptimal Node Scheduling for Effective Energy Usage in Sensor Networks,鈥 Proc. IEEE Workshop on Integrated Management of Power Aware Communications, Computing, and Networking, May 2002
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